About the Authors

Alexandra Grote

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Denis Voronin

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Tao Ding

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Alan Twaddle

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas R. Unnasch

Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Sara Lustigman

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Elodie Ghedin

elodie.ghedin@nyu.edu

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AG TRU SL EG. Data curation: AG AT. Formal analysis: AG DV TD. Funding acquisition: TRU SL EG. Investigation: AG DV. Methodology: AG DV. Project administration: AG EG. Resources: AG DV SL EG. Software: AG AT TD. Supervision: TRU SL EG. Validation: AG DV. Visualization: AG TD. Writing – original draft: AG EG. Writing – review & editing: AG DV TD TRU SL EG.