About the Authors

Verena Ras

Contributed equally to this work with: Verena Ras, Gerrit Botha

Members of the H3ABioNet Consortium Education and Training Work Package and the H3Africa Consortium

Affiliations Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Gerrit Botha

Contributed equally to this work with: Verena Ras, Gerrit Botha

Members of the H3ABioNet Consortium Education and Training Work Package and the H3Africa Consortium

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Shaun Aron

Members of the H3ABioNet Consortium Education and Training Work Package and the H3Africa Consortium

Affiliation Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Katie Lennard

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Imane Allali

Members of the H3ABioNet Consortium Education and Training Work Package and the H3Africa Consortium

Affiliations Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Laboratory of Human Pathologies Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, and Genomic Center of Human Pathologies, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

Shantelle Claassen-Weitz

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Kilaza Samson Mwaikono

Affiliation Department of Science and Laboratory Technology, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Dane Kennedy

Affiliation The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA), Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Jessica R. Holmes

Affiliation High Performance Computing in Biology, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Gloria Rendon

Affiliation High Performance Computing in Biology, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Sumir Panji

Members of the H3ABioNet Consortium Education and Training Work Package and the H3Africa Consortium

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Christopher J Fields

Members of the H3ABioNet Consortium Education and Training Work Package and the H3Africa Consortium

Affiliation High Performance Computing in Biology, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Nicola Mulder

nicola.mulder@uct.ac.za

Members of the H3ABioNet Consortium Education and Training Work Package and the H3Africa Consortium

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.