About the Authors

Daniel P. Depledge

d.depledge@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Anne L. Palser

Affiliation Pathogen Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Simon J. Watson

Affiliation Pathogen Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Imogen Yi-Chun Lai

Affiliations Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Pathogen Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Eleanor R. Gray

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Paul Grant

Affiliation Department of Virology, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Ravinder K. Kanda

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Emily Leproust

Affiliation Agilent Technologies, Santa Rosa, California, United States of America

Paul Kellam

Affiliations Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Pathogen Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Judith Breuer

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. EL is employed by Agilent Technologies, Inc., and Agilent reagents are used in the research presented in this article. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB PK DPD RKK ALP. Performed the experiments: DPD ALP IY-CL ERG PG. Analyzed the data: DPD ALP IY-CL SJW JB PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL ERG DPD. Wrote the paper: DPD JB PK.