About the Authors

Uria Mor

Contributed equally to this work with: Uria Mor, Yotam Cohen, Rafael Valdés-Mas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Systems Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yotam Cohen

Contributed equally to this work with: Uria Mor, Yotam Cohen, Rafael Valdés-Mas

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systems Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Rafael Valdés-Mas

Contributed equally to this work with: Uria Mor, Yotam Cohen, Rafael Valdés-Mas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systems Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Denise Kviatcovsky

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Systems Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Eran Elinav

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ EE and HA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Systems Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Microbiome and Cancer Division, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

Haim Avron

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

haimav@tauex.tau.ac.il

‡ EE and HA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interest: E.E. is a scientific founder of DayTwo and BiomX, and a paid consultant to Roots GmbH. H.A. is an inventor of U.S. patent US10771088B1 which discloses the TSVDM decomposition which is the basis for tcam. U.S. patent US10771088B1 is assigned to Tel Aviv Yafo University, International Business Machines Corp and Tufts University. Inventors are Lior Horesh, Misha E. Kilmer, H.A., and Elizabeth Newman. The remaining authors, U.M. Y.C. R.V.M. D.K don’t have any competing interests.