About the Authors

Satoru Yanagisawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan R. Baker

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

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Chaitanya Vuppusetty

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

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Takeshi Koga

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Thomas Colley

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

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter Fenwick

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Louise E. Donnelly

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

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter J. Barnes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Kazuhiro Ito

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

k.ito@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

KI is an employee and co-founder of Pulmocide Ltd, and has honorary contract with Imperial College. TC is currently an employee of Pulmocide Ltd and had an honorary contract with Imperial college. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.