About the Authors

Jennifer Listgarten

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

Nicole Frahm

Affiliation Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carl Kadie

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

Christian Brander

Affiliation Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Heckerman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: heckerma@microsoft.com

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JL and DH were responsible for algorithm design and writing of the paper. JL was responsible for implementation. NF and CB designed and performed laboratory experiments leading to the need for the algorithm (and performed biological validation experiments). CK provided initial implementation.