About the Authors

David M. Aanensen

d.aanensen@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Derek M. Huntley

Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Edward J. Feil

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Fada'a al-Own

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Brian G. Spratt

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMA DMH BGS. Wrote the paper: DMA BGS. Software and web interface development: DMA DMH. Field testing of software: EJF FaO.