About the Authors

Nedialko B. Dimitrov

ned@alumni.cs.utexas.edu

Affiliation ORIE Program, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Sebastian Goll

Affiliation Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Nathaniel Hupert

Affiliations Preparedness Modeling Unit, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Babak Pourbohloul

Affiliation Mathematical Modeling, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lauren Ancel Meyers

Affiliations Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NBD SG LAM. Performed the experiments: NBD SG LAM. Analyzed the data: NBD SG NH BP LAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NBD SG NH BP LAM. Wrote the paper: NBD SG NH BP LAM.