About the Authors

Mohamed Helmy

mohamed.helmy@usask.ca

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, Vaccinology and Immunotherapeutics Program, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department of Computer Science, Idaho State University, Boise, Idaho, United States of America, Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Lingling Jin

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

Amr Alhossary

Affiliation Chemistry Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

Tamer Mansour

Affiliations Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Diogo Pellagrina

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

Kumar Selvarajoo

Affiliations Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore, Synthetic Biology Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Republic of Singapore, Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Centre for Life Sciences #02-07, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.