About the Authors

A. Brian Mochon

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jin Ye

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Matthew A. Kayala

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

John R. Wingard

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Cornelius J. Clancy

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

M. Hong Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Philip Felgner

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Pacific Southwest Center for Research on Emerging Infections, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Pierre Baldi

Affiliations Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Haoping Liu

h4liu@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL. Performed the experiments: ABM JY. Analyzed the data: ABM MAK PB HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRW CJC MHN PF PB. Wrote the paper: ABM MAK HL.