Machine learning-based phenotypic imaging to characterise the targetable biology of Plasmodium falciparum male gametocytes for the development of transmission-blocking antimalarials

• Oleksiy Tsebriy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oleksiy Tsebriy, Andrii Khomiak, Maurizio Gioli, Edgar Whitley

  Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Independent researcher, Ternopil, Ukraine

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• Andrii Khomiak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oleksiy Tsebriy, Andrii Khomiak, Maurizio Gioli, Edgar Whitley

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Independent researcher, Ternopil, Ukraine

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• Celia Miguel-Blanco,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Medicines R&D., GlaxoSmithKline, Madrid, Spain

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• Penny C. Sparkes,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, United Kingdom

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• Maurizio Gioli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oleksiy Tsebriy, Andrii Khomiak, Maurizio Gioli, Edgar Whitley

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

  Affiliation SOAS University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Marco Santelli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Independent researcher, Ternopil, Ukraine

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• Edgar Whitley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oleksiy Tsebriy, Andrii Khomiak, Maurizio Gioli, Edgar Whitley

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

  Affiliation Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

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• Francisco-Javier Gamo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Medicines R&D., GlaxoSmithKline, Madrid, Spain

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• Michael J. Delves

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

  * E-mail: michael.delves@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8526-4782

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