About the Authors

Caroline I. Larkin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Joint Carnegie Mellon University - University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew D. Dunn

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jason E. Shoemaker

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

William B. Klimstra

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James R. Faeder

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

faeder@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. W.B.K. is a co-founder of Advanced Virology. The Klimstra laboratory has received unrelated funding in support of sponsored research agreements from SAB Biotherapeutics. The remaining authors have declared no competing interest.