About the Authors

Remco Bouckaert

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

r.bouckaert@auckland.ac.nz (RB); alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz (AJD)

Affiliations Centre of Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Timothy G. Vaughan

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ETH Zürich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, 4058 Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Joëlle Barido-Sottani

Roles Software

Affiliations ETH Zürich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, 4058 Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sebastián Duchêne

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mathieu Fourment

Roles Software

Affiliation ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Alexandra Gavryushkina

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand

Joseph Heled

Roles Software

Affiliation Independent researcher, Auckland, New Zealand

Graham Jones

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

Denise Kühnert

Roles Software

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Nicola De Maio

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridgeshire, UK

Michael Matschiner

Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

Fábio K. Mendes

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Nicola F. Müller

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations ETH Zürich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, 4058 Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Huw A. Ogilvie

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA

Louis du Plessis

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK

Alex Popinga

Roles Software

Affiliation Centre of Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Andrew Rambaut

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL UK

David Rasmussen

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

Igor Siveroni

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, W2 1PG, UK

Marc A. Suchard

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Chieh-Hsi Wu

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK

Dong Xie

Roles Software

Affiliation Centre of Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Chi Zhang

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tanja Stadler

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ETH Zürich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, 4058 Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Alexei J. Drummond

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

r.bouckaert@auckland.ac.nz (RB); alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz (AJD)

Affiliation Centre of Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.