About the Authors

Santosh K. Srivastava

Affiliation IBM Research Lab, New Delhi, India

Harlan S. Robins

hrobins@fhcrc.org

Affiliation Programs in Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer research Center, on behalf of H.S.R. has applied for a patent “Method of Measuring Adaptive Immunity”. H.S.R. co-founded Adaptive Biotechnologies, which licensed the TCR sequencing technology from FHCRC. He has stock and consults for Adaptive. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS HR. Performed the experiments: SS HR. Analyzed the data: SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: SS HR.