About the Authors

Brandon L. Peters

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

Affiliation Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jinxia Deng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zoetis Inc, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America

Andrew L. Ferguson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

andrewferguson@uchicago.edu

Affiliation Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

A.L.F. is a consultant of Evozyne and a co-author of US Provisional Patent 62/853,919 and International Patent PCT/US2020/035206 “HIV-1 SPECIFIC IMMUNOGEN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE”, and US Provisional Patent 62/900,420 and International Patent PCT/US20/50466 “METHOD AND APPARATUS USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR EVOLUTIONARY DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN OF PROTEINS AND OTHER SEQUENCE DEFINED BIOMOLECULES”. These affiliations and interests do not entail any competing interests with this work and do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.