About the Authors

David K. Brown

Affiliation Research Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

David L. Penkler

Affiliation Research Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Thommas M. Musyoka

Affiliation Research Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Özlem Tastan Bishop

o.tastanbishop@ru.ac.za

Affiliation Research Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DKB OTB. Wrote the paper: DKB DLP TMM OTB. Developed the software: DKB. Constructed the pipelines for case studies: DKB DLP TMM.