About the Authors

Allison L. Hicks

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

allison_hicks@g.harvard.edu (ALH); ygrad@hsph.harvard.edu (YHG)

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicole Wheeler

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Leonor Sánchez-Busó

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jennifer L. Rakeman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Laboratory, Division of Disease Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, United States of America

Simon R. Harris

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiotica Ltd, Biodata Innovation Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Yonatan H. Grad

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

allison_hicks@g.harvard.edu (ALH); ygrad@hsph.harvard.edu (YHG)

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Simon R. Harris is an employee of Microbiotica Ltd. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.