About the Authors

Pieter J. K. Libin

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

pieter.libin@uhasselt.be

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium

Lander Willem

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

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Timothy Verstraeten

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

Affiliation Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Andrea Torneri

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

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Joris Vanderlocht

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

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Niel Hens

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

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium, Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy concerning competing interests. JV is, besides his employment at the Hasselt University, part of the investment team of Bioqube Ventures. Bioqube Ventures was not involved in this work, nor does it prosper financially as a result of the current study. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.