About the Authors

Edward S. Lee

Affiliation Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Paul G. Thomas

Affiliation St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Jeff E. Mold

Affiliation Karolinska Institute, CMB, Stockholm, Sweden

Andrew J. Yates

andrew.yates@glasgow.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The University of Glasgow has filed an initial patent application based upon this algorithm. However the implementation of the algorithm as described in the text is provided in R and freely available through the GPL 3.0.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AJY JEM. Data curation: JEM ESL. Formal analysis: ESL AJY. Funding acquisition: AJY. Investigation: PGT JEM. Methodology: AJY ESL. Project administration: AJY. Resources: PGT JEM. Software: ESL. Supervision: AJY. Validation: ESL. Visualization: ESL. Writing – original draft: AJY ESL. Writing – review & editing: ESL PGT JEM AJY.