Moiz Usmani, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Kyle Brumfield, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Anwar Huq, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD, United States and Antarpreet Singh Jutla, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States