About the Authors

Yoann Le Breton

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

lebreton@umd.edu (YLB); kmciver@umd.edu (KSM)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ashton T. Belew

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Freiberg

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ganesh S. Sundar

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Emrul Islam

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua Lieberman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mark E. Shirtliff

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hervé Tettelin

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Najib M. El-Sayed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Kevin S. McIver

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

lebreton@umd.edu (YLB); kmciver@umd.edu (KSM)

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.