About the Authors

Wayne Delport

wdelport@ucsd.edu

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

Konrad Scheffler

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Mike B. Gravenor

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Swansea, Swansea, Wales

Spencer V. Muse

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Sergei Kosakovsky Pond

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WD KS MBG SVM SLKP. Performed the experiments: WD SLKP. Analyzed the data: WD SLKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WD MBG SLKP. Wrote the paper: WD KS SLKP.