About the Authors

Deborah Dean

Affiliations Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, University of California at Berkeley and University of California at San Francisco Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Rosemary S. Turingan

Affiliation NetBio, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hans-Ulrich Thomann

Affiliation NetBio, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna Zolotova

Affiliation NetBio, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

James Rothschild

Affiliations Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, University of California at Berkeley and University of California at San Francisco Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Sandeep J. Joseph

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Timothy D. Read

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Eugene Tan

Affiliation NetBio, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard F. Selden

richard.selden@netbio.com

Affiliation NetBio, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

RST, HUT, AZ, ET, and RFS hold equity in NetBio, which is developing products based on technologies described in this manuscript. NetBio owns patents and patent applications related to technologies described in this manuscript. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The authors affirm their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials described in this article.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DD RST RFS. Performed the experiments: RST AZ. Analyzed the data: RST HUT RFS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD JR ET. Wrote the paper: DD RST RFS. Performed comparative data and genomic analysis: DD SJJ TDR.