About the Authors

Oliver M. Cliff

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

Affiliation Centre for Complex Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Natalia McLean

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

Affiliation Centre for Complex Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Vitali Sintchenko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology – Public Health, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, NSW Health Pathology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kristopher M. Fair

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Complex Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Tania C. Sorrell

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology – Public Health, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, NSW Health Pathology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stuart Kauffman

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA

Mikhail Prokopenko

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

mikhail.prokopenko@sydney.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Complex Systems, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.