About the Authors

Aurelie Guyet

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

Affiliation The Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Martyn Dade-Robertson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Anil Wipat

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

John Casement

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Bioinformatics Support Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Wendy Smith

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Helen Mitrani

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Meng Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

meng.zhang@northumbria.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.