About the Authors

David Sargeant

Contributed equally to this work with: David Sargeant, Sandeep Deverasetty

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Sandeep Deverasetty

Contributed equally to this work with: David Sargeant, Sandeep Deverasetty

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Yang Luo

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Angel Villahoz Baleta

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Stephanie Zobrist

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Viraj Rathnayake

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Jacqueline C. Russo

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Jay Vyas

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Microbial, and Structural Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Mark A. Muesing

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Martin R. Schiller

martin.schiller@unlv.edu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is filing a patent application. None of the authors have received compensation in any form that would be considered a competing interest nor is there any current plan to develop HIVToolbox into a business. HIVToolbox has not been licensed to any commercial company or government entity.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRS MAM. Performed the experiments: YL . Analyzed the data: MRS YL MAM . Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL. Wrote the paper: MRS DS JV MAM. Engineered the web application and database: DS SD AVB. Prepared the diagram of the HIV-1 life cycle used for the front page of the application: SZ. Annotated and refactored data for the database: VR JCR. Assisted in the design of the web site and the implementation of the interface: JV.