About the Authors

Mark Alber

malber@ucr.edu

Affiliations Department‌‌ of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Center for Data-Driven Modeling in Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Amber Smith

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Institute for the Study of Host-Pathogen System, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Reinhard Laubenbacher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Roeland M. H. Merks

Affiliation Mathematical Institute and Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.