About the Authors

Abdur Rahman M. A. Basher

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia, Genome Sciences Centre, 100-570 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan J. McLaughlin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia, Genome Sciences Centre, 100-570 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Steven J. Hallam

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

shallam@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliations Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia, Genome Sciences Centre, 100-570 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, 2552-2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Genome Science and Technology Program, University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ECOSCOPE Training Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

SJH is a co-founder of Koonkie Inc., a bioinformatics consulting company that designs and provides scalable algorithmic and data analytics solutions in the cloud.