About the Authors

Ryan P. McNamara

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryan P. McNamara, Pauline E. Chugh

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Pauline E. Chugh

Contributed equally to this work with: Ryan P. McNamara, Pauline E. Chugh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Q2 Solutions–EA Genomics, Morrisville, North Carolina

Aubrey Bailey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Lindsey M. Costantini

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina

Zhe Ma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Rachele Bigi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Avery Cheves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Anthony B. Eason

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Justin T. Landis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Kurtis M. Host

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Jie Xiong

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Jack D. Griffith

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Blossom Damania

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dirk P. Dittmer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ddittmer@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Dr. P. Chugh completed the work presented here while an employee at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now employed by Q2 Solutions. Q2 Solutions had no influence on the work presented here and did not fund her or her work during the time she conducted this research.