About the Authors

Ronald Galiwango

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

rgaliwango@idi.co.ug

Affiliations The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Christopher J. Whalen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Research Data and Communication Technologies Benefit Corp., Garrett Park, Maryland, United States of America

Grace Kebirungi

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mugume T. Atwine

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Rodgers Kimera

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Research Data and Communication Technologies Benefit Corp., Garrett Park, Maryland, United States of America

Alfred Ssekagiri

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda

Timothy W. Kimbowa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda

Edward Lukyamuzi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda

Mike Nsubuga

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

eLwazi ODSP

Affiliation Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Lloyd Ssentongo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Data and Communication Technologies Benefit Corp., Garrett Park, Maryland, United States of America

Henry Mutegeki

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

John M. Fonner

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Frank Wuerthwein

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ari Berman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation BioTeam, Middleton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura B. Okalebo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation BioTeam, Middleton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Meghan McCarthy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Victor S. Kramer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mariam Quinones

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Phillip Cruz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Darrell Hurt

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria Y. Giovanni

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nicola Mulder

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Michael Tartakovsky

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan Kayondo

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda

Daudi Jjingo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Open Data Science Platform (ODSP) for the DS-I Africa (Data Science Initiative for Africa), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.