About the Authors

Andreas Handel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ahandel@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Health Informatics Institute and Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yan Li

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Center for Research Informatics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Brian McKay

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kasia A. Pawelek

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, University of South Carolina Beaufort, Bluffton, South Carolina, United States of America

Veronika Zarnitsyna

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rustom Antia

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.