About the Authors

Nicholas Eriksson

eriksson@galton.uchicago.edu (NE); niko.beerenwinkel@bsse.ethz.ch (NB)

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lior Pachter

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Yumi Mitsuya

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Soo-Yon Rhee

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Chunlin Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Baback Gharizadeh

Affiliation Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Mostafa Ronaghi

Affiliation Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Robert W. Shafer

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Niko Beerenwinkel

eriksson@galton.uchicago.edu (NE); niko.beerenwinkel@bsse.ethz.ch (NB)

Affiliation Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: YM SR CW BG MR RS. Analyzed the data: NE LP NB. Wrote the paper: NE LP NB.