About the Authors

Trevor D. Lawley

tl2@sanger.ac.uk

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Simon Clare

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Clare, Alan W. Walker

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Alan W. Walker

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Clare, Alan W. Walker

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Mark D. Stares

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Thomas R. Connor

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Claire Raisen

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

David Goulding

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Roland Rad

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Fernanda Schreiber

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Cordelia Brandt

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Laura J. Deakin

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Derek J. Pickard

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Sylvia H. Duncan

Affiliation Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Harry J. Flint

Affiliation Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Taane G. Clark

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Julian Parkhill

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Gordon Dougan

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TDL SC GD. Performed the experiments: TDL SC AWW MDS CR DG RR CB LJD DJP SHD. Analyzed the data: TDL AWW TRC FS SHD TGC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJF JP. Wrote the paper: TDL AWW GD.