About the Authors

Luca Ferretti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

luca.ferretti@gmail.com, luca.ferretti@bdi.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom, Current address: Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Eva Pérez-Martín

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Fuquan Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

François Maree

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

Affiliations South Africa Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute-Transboundary Animal Diseases Programme (OVI-TADP), Onderstepoort, Gauteng, South Africa

Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist

Roles Resources

Affiliation South Africa Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Louis van Schalkwykc

Roles Resources

Affiliation South Africa Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Nicholas D. Juleff

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Current address: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Bryan Charleston

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Paolo Ribeca

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.