About the Authors

Daniel Kepple

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dkepple@uncc.edu (DK); el855@drexel.edu (EL)

Affiliation Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Colby T. Ford

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America, School of Data Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Jonathan Williams

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Beka Abagero

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Shaoyu Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Jean Popovici

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Malaria Research Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Delenasaw Yewhalaw

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Tropical and Infectious Diseases Research Center, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Eugenia Lo

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

dkepple@uncc.edu (DK); el855@drexel.edu (EL)

Affiliations Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.