About the Authors

Jared D. Sharp

Contributed equally to this work with: Jared D. Sharp, Atul K. Singh

Current address: Affinivax, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States of America

Atul K. Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Jared D. Sharp, Atul K. Singh

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States of America

Sang Tae Park

Current address: Macrogen Clinical Laboratory, Rockville, Maryland 20850, United States of America

Affiliation National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States of America

Anna Lyubetskaya

Current address: Bioinformatics Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States of America

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States of America

Matthew W. Peterson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States of America

Antonio L. C. Gomes

Current address: Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, United States of America

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States of America

Lakshmi-Prasad Potluri

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States of America

Sahadevan Raman

Current address: Division of Rheumatology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States of America

Affiliation National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States of America

James E. Galagan

robert.husson@childrens.harvard.edu (RH); jgalag@bu.edu (JG)

Affiliations National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States of America, Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States of America

Robert N. Husson

robert.husson@childrens.harvard.edu (RH); jgalag@bu.edu (JG)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDS AKS STP JEG RNH. Performed the experiments: JDS AKS STP SR. Analyzed the data: JDS AKS STP AL MWP ALCG LP SR JEG RNH. Wrote the paper: JDS AKS JEG RNH.