About the Authors

Ashley Sobel Leonard

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Micah T. McClain

Affiliation Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Gavin J. D. Smith

Affiliation Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

David E. Wentworth

Current Address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MS-G16, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Rebecca A. Halpin

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Xudong Lin

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Amy Ransier

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Timothy B. Stockwell

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Suman R. Das

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony S. Gilbert

Affiliation hVivo PLC, The QMB Innovation Centre, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Rob Lambkin-Williams

Affiliation hVivo PLC, The QMB Innovation Centre, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg

Affiliation Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher W. Woods

Affiliation Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Katia Koelle

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher J. R. Illingworth

chris.illingworth@gen.cam.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

ASG and RLW are employees of hVivo PLC.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ASL MTM GSG ASG RLW CWW KK CJRI. Data curation: ASL GJDS RAH XL TBS CJRI. Formal analysis: ASL CJRI. Funding acquisition: SRD GSG KK CJRI. Investigation: MTM GJDS RAH ASG AR CWW CJRI. Methodology: ASG RLW CJRI. Project administration: DEW SRD ASG GSG KK CJRI. Resources: GJDS RLW ASG GSG. Software: CJRI. Supervision: DEW SRD ASG RLW GSG KK CJRI. Validation: RLW CJRI. Visualization: CJRI. Writing – original draft: ASL KK CJRI. Writing – review & editing: ASL MTM GJDS DEW RAH AR TBS SRD ASG RLW GSG CWW KK CJRI.