About the Authors

Andrew McDavid

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew McDavid, Lucas Dennis

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lucas Dennis

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew McDavid, Lucas Dennis

Affiliation NanoString Technologies, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Patrick Danaher

Affiliation NanoString Technologies, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Greg Finak

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael Krouse

Affiliation NanoString Technologies, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alice Wang

Affiliation BD Biosciences, San Jose, California, United States of America

Philippa Webster

Affiliation NanoString Technologies, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Joseph Beechem

Affiliation NanoString Technologies, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Raphael Gottardo

raph@rglab.org

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: NanoStrings Technologies and BD Biosciences products were used to generate data for this manuscript. Lucas Dennis, Patrick Danaher, Michael Krouse, Philippa Webster and Joseph Beechem are employees of NanoString Technologies. Alice Wang is an employee of BD Biosciences.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG LD JB PW. Performed the experiments: LD AM AW MK. Analyzed the data: AM GF PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW. Wrote the paper: AM RG PD LD GF.