About the Authors

Daniel R. Ripoll

Affiliation Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Ilja V. Khavrutskii

Affiliation Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Sidhartha Chaudhury

Affiliation Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jin Liu

Affiliation Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Robert A. Kuschner

Affiliation Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Unit, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Anders Wallqvist

Affiliation Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jaques Reifman

jaques.reifman@us.army.mil

Affiliation Department of Defense Biotechnology High Performance Computing Software Applications Institute, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRR IVK RAK AW JR. Performed the experiments: DRR IVK SC. Analyzed the data: DRR IVK SC JL. Wrote the paper: DRR IVK SC AW JR.