About the Authors

Christian Happi

happic@run.edu.ng (CH); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

Affiliations African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University; Ede, Osun State, Nigeria, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

Ifedayo Adetifa

Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

Placide Mbala

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Richard Njouom

Affiliation Virology Unit, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Emmanuel Nakoune

Affiliation Institut Pasteur Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

Anise Happi

Affiliation African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University; Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

Nnaemeka Ndodo

Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

Oyeronke Ayansola

Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

Gerald Mboowa

Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Trevor Bedford

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Richard A. Neher

Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Cornelius Roemer

Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Emma Hodcroft

Affiliations Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Geneva Center of Emerging Viral Diseases, HUG, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Houriiyah Tegally

Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Áine O’Toole

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Andrew Rambaut

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Oliver Pybus

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Moritz U. G. Kraemer

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Eduan Wilkinson

Affiliation Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Joana Isidro

Affiliation Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal

Vítor Borges

Affiliation Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal

Miguel Pinto

Affiliation Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal

João Paulo Gomes

Affiliations Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

Lucas Freitas

Affiliation GISAID at Laboratorio de vírus respiratórios-IOC/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paola C. Resende

Affiliation GISAID at Laboratorio de vírus respiratórios-IOC/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Raphael T. C. Lee

Affiliation GISAID at Bioinformatics Institute and ID labs A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore

Sebastian Maurer-Stroh

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and YLL School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Cheryl Baxter

Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

Richard Lessells

Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

Ahmed E. Ogwell

Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yenew Kebede

Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Sofonias K. Tessema

Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tulio de Oliveira

happic@run.edu.ng (CH); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.