About the Authors

Jiani Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Response, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Swan Tan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Response, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Vasanthi Avadhanula

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Leonard Moise

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Seromyx Systems Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, EpiVax Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Pedro A. Piedra

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anne S. De Groot

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, EpiVax Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Justin Bahl

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

justin.bahl@uga.edu

Affiliations Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Response, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: ADG is a senior officer and majority shareholder of EpiVax, Inc. Some of the epitope prediction tools used in this study were developed by EpiVax. The tools were available for academic collaboration at no cost. LM was employed by EpiVax while this study was conducted.