About the Authors

Shaun Aron

shaun.aron@wits.ac.za

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

C. Victor Jongeneel

Affiliation Independent consultant, Rolle, Switzerland

Paballo Abel Chauke

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Melek Chaouch

Affiliation Laboratory of bioinformatics, biomathematics and biostatistics, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Belvédère, Tunisia

Judit Kumuthini

Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Lyndon Zass

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Fouzia Radouani

Affiliation Chlamydiae & Mycoplasmas Laboratory Research Department, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco

Samar Kamal Kassim

Affiliation Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, and MASRI Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Faisal M. Fadlelmola

Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Nicola Mulder

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, CIDRI Africa Wellcome Trust Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.