About the Authors

Vignesh Kumar Gunasekharan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yan Li

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jorge Andrade

Affiliation Center for Research Informatics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Laimonis A. Laimins

l-laimins@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAL VKG. Performed the experiments: VKG YL JA. Analyzed the data: LAL VKG YL JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VKG. Wrote the paper: LAL VKG.