About the Authors

Megan Levy

Contributed equally to this work with: Megan Levy, Jessica W. Chen

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

Current address: School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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

Jessica W. Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Megan Levy, Jessica W. Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: PhD Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America

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

Jaclyn A. Kaiser

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Hong-Su Park

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Xueqiao Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Lijuan Yang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Celia Santos

Roles Investigation, 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, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, 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, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, 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

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