About the Authors

Mark Klinger

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Francois Pepin

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Jen Wilkins

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Thomas Asbury

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Tobias Wittkop

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Jianbiao Zheng

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Martin Moorhead

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Malek Faham

mfaham@adaptivebiotech.com

Affiliation Adaptive Biotechnologies, South San Francisco, CA 94080, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Authors are employees and stockholders of Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation. M.K. and M.F. are inventors on the filed application patent number PCT/US2014/242520 titled “Determining antigen-specific T-cells and B-cells”. There are no 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: MK MF. Performed the experiments: MK. Analyzed the data: MK MF FP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW TA TW JZ MM. Wrote the paper: MK MF.