About the Authors

Md Zulfikar Ali

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

Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert C. Brewster

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

Robert.Brewster@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.