About the Authors

David C Nickle

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Morgane Rolland

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mark A Jensen

Current address: Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Wenjie Deng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mark Seligman

Current address; Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David Heckerman

Affiliation Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States of America

James I Mullins

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jmullins@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nebojsa Jojic

Affiliation Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DCN, MR, DH, JIM, and NJ conceived and designed the experiments. DCN, WD, and MS performed the experiments. DCN, MR, WD, and JIM analyzed the data. DCN, MAJ, SLKP, WD, MS, DH, and NJ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. DCN, MR, and JIM wrote the paper.