About the Authors

Jessica W. Chen

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

Current address: Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lijuan Yang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Celia Santos

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sergio A. Hassan

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

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter L. Collins

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ursula J. Buchholz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cyril Le Nouën

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lenouenc@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

C.L.N, P.L.C, and U.J.B. are coinventors on a patent application for the development of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines by codon pair deoptimization.