About the Authors

Jose L. Herrera

jherrera@ula.ve

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Departamento de Cálculo, Escuela Básica de Ingeniería, Facultad de Ingeneiría, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Ravi Srinivasan

Affiliations Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

John S. Brownstein

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alison P. Galvani

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lauren Ancel Meyers

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAM JLH. Performed the experiments: JLH RS. Analyzed the data: JLH LAM RS. Wrote the paper: JLH LAM APG JSB RS.