About the Authors

Vincent Plagnol

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Plagnol, Samuel Woodhouse

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Samuel Woodhouse

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Plagnol, Samuel Woodhouse

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Karen Howarth

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stefanie Lensing

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Matt Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael Epstein

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mikidache Madi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sarah Smalley

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Product Development, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Catherine Leroy

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jonathan Hinton

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Frank de Kievit

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Esther Musgrave-Brown

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Colin Herd

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Katherine Baker-Neblett

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Development, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Will Brennan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Product Development, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter Dimitrov

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nathan Campbell

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory Operations, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Clive Morris

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Development, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Nitzan Rosenfeld

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

James Clark

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Davina Gale

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jamie Platt

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Product Development, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

John Calaway

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Product Development, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Greg Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Product Development, Inivata Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Tim Forshew

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tim.forshew@inivata.com

Affiliation Research and Development, Inivata Ltd, Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

These studies were funded by Inivata Ltd, and Inivata Inc. All authors are current or former employees and/or officers and/or share-holders of Inivata Ltd or Inivata Inc, the funder of this study. Patents have been filed relating to the technology described in this manuscript (WO2016009224 A1 - A method for detecting a genetic variant) and the study describes the validation of a product developed by Inivata Ltd. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.