About the Authors

Jad El Hage

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Patti Gravitt

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jacques Ravel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nadia Lahrichi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, CIRRELT & Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Erica Gralla

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

egralla@gwu.edu

Affiliation Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.