About the Authors

Elisabeth K. Brockhaus

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

elisabeth.brockhaus@outlook.de (EKB); johannes.bracher@kit.edu (JB)

Affiliation Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Daniel Wolffram

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany

Tanja Stadler

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Michael Osthege

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Institute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Tanmay Mitra

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Current address: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jonas M. Littek

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Ekaterina Krymova

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Swiss Data Science Center, EPF Lausanne and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Anna J. Klesen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Jana S. Huisman

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland, Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stefan Heyder

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

Laura M. Helleckes

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Institute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Matthias an der Heiden

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Funk

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sam Abbott

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Johannes Bracher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

elisabeth.brockhaus@outlook.de (EKB); johannes.bracher@kit.edu (JB)

Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there are no competing interests.