About the Authors

Michael Smith

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Swara Yadav

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Olayemi G. Fagunloye

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Nana Adjoa Pels

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Daniel A. Horton

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Genome Engineering and Maintenance, Division of Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom

Nashwah Alsultan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Andrea Borns

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Carolyn Cousin

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Freddie Dixon

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

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Victoria H. Mann

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Clarence Lee

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Science & Mathematics, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Paul J. Brindley

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Najib M. El-Sayed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Joanna M. Bridger

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Genome Engineering and Maintenance, Division of Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom

Matty Knight

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mathilde.knight@udc.edu, matty_knight@gwu.edu

Affiliations Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.