About the Authors

Agnes C. Paquet

apaquet@monogrambio.com

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

John Baxter

Affiliation Cooper University Hospital/UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Jodi Weidler

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yolanda Lie

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jody Lawrence

Current address: Merck and Co, Inc., North Wales, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rose Kim

Affiliation Cooper University Hospital/UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Michael Bates

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eoin Coakley

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Colombe Chappey

Current address: Genentech, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Monogram Biosciences, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Agnes Paquet, Jodi Weidler, Eoin Coakley, Yolanda Lie and Michael Bates are employees of Monogram Biosciences, Inc., provider of its proprietary PhenoSense® HIV assays with Replication Capacity assays. Monogram Biosciences is committed to compliance with PLoS ONE policies regarding the sharing of data and materials for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research. Colombe Chappey was a full-time employee of Monogram Biosciences during the entire study and writing of the manuscript. She started working in Genentech in April 2009, after completing her contribution to the study and the writing of the manuscript. Although her current affiliation is Genentech, Genentech has not played any role in the study nor funded an employee working on it. Jody Lawrence was a full-time employee of the University of California San Francisco during the entire study period in which she served as study chair and during her contribution to the manuscript. Although Jody Lawrence's current affiliation is Merck & Co., Inc., Merck & Co., Inc. has not played any role in the study or in the manuscript nor funded an employee working on it.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACP JB JW YSL JL RK MB EC CC. Analyzed the data: ACP JB JW YSL JL RK MB EC CC. Wrote the paper: ACP JB JW YSL JL RK MB EC CC.