About the Authors

John M. Aronis

Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Aronis, Gregory F. Cooper

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

jma18@pitt.edu

Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeffrey P. Ferraro

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Per H. Gesteland

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Fuchiang Tsui

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ye Ye

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael M. Wagner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gregory F. Cooper

Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Aronis, Gregory F. Cooper

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

Affiliation Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.