About the Authors

Naomi L. Forrester

Contributed equally to this work with: Naomi L. Forrester, Joel O. Wertheim

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

naforres@utmb.edu

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Joel O. Wertheim

Contributed equally to this work with: Naomi L. Forrester, Joel O. Wertheim

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Vivian G. Dugan

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Current address: Virology Surveillance and Diagnosis Branch Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Virology Group J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Albert J. Auguste

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

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

David Lin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation cBio, Fremont, California, United States of America

A. Paige Adams

Roles Investigation

Current address: International Animal Health and Food Safety Institute, Kansas State University Olathe, Olathe, Kansas, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Rubing Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Rodion Gorchakov

Roles Investigation

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Section of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Grace Leal

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Jose G. Estrada-Franco

Roles Resources

Current address: The College of the Southern Border (EcoSur), San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico; Unidad San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Departamento de Salud, Periférico Sur s/n, María Auxiliadora, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC/National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)/Office of Infectious Diseases (OID), Edinburg, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Jyotsna Pandya

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Rebecca A. Halpin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Virology Group J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kumar Hari

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation cBio, Fremont, California, United States of America

Ravi Jain

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation cBio, Fremont, California, United States of America

Timothy B. Stockwell

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Suman R. Das

Roles Data curation

Current address: Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

David E. Wentworth

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Virology Surveillance and Diagnosis Branch Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Virology Group J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Martin D. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Scott C. Weaver

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: David Lin, Kumar Hari and Ravi Jain work for cBio.