About the Authors

Susanna L. Lamers

Affiliations Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, BioInfoExperts, Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States of America

Art F. Y. Poon

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for HIV/AIDs Excellence, British Columbia, Canada

Michael S. McGrath

MMcGrath@php.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, The AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (West Coast ACSR), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. While Susanna L. Lamers was employed by BioInfoExperts (BIE), the company and Susanna L. Lamers declare no ownership or patents pertaining to the described study. The authors confirm that their association with BIE does not alter their adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLL. Performed the experiments: SLL AFYP. Analyzed the data: SLL AFYP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSM. Wrote the paper: SLL AFYP MSM.