About the Authors

Guangyu Sun

Affiliation Vecna Technologies, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher N. Larsen

clarsen@vecna.com

Affiliation Vecna Technologies, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America

Nicole Baumgarth

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine and the Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Edward B. Klem

Affiliation Northrop Grumman Health Solutions, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Richard H. Scheuermann

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Any software, algorithmic computation routines and code contributed by Vecna Technologies for this project become the intellectual property of Northrop Grumman; the data being then provided freely back to the public as governed by the NIH contracting institute. This arrangement does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GS CNL NB EBK RHS. Data curation: GS. Formal analysis: GS CNL. Funding acquisition: CNL EBK RHS. Investigation: GS. Methodology: GS CNL. Project administration: EBK RHS. Resources: EBK. Software: GS CNL. Supervision: EBK RHS. Validation: GS EBK NB. Visualization: GS. Writing – original draft: GS CNL. Writing – review & editing: GS CNL NB EBK RHS.