About the Authors

Philippe Lemey

philippe.lemey@uz.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Andrew Rambaut

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alexei J. Drummond

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Marc A. Suchard

Affiliations Departments of Biomathematics and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: PL. Wrote the paper: PL MAS. Designed the study: PL MAS. Provided programming assistance: AR AJD. Conceived the original idea and developed the software implementation: MAS.