About the Authors

Iren Bains

ibains@nimr.mrc.ac.uk

Affiliations Immune Cell Biology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom, Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Immunobiology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, London, United Kingdom

Andrew J. Yates

Affiliations Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Robin E. Callard

Affiliations Immunobiology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Co-author Andrew Yates is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. 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: IB AJY REC. Performed the experiments: IB. Analyzed the data: IB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IB AJY. Wrote the paper: IB AJY REC.