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## **Author details**

Karen van Niekerk1 , Rian Pierneef<sup>1</sup> , Oleg N. Reva1 \*, Ilya S. Korostetskiy<sup>2</sup> , Aleksandr I. Ilin2\* and Gulshara K. Akhmetova2

\*Address all correspondence to: oleg.reva@up.ac.za and ilin\_ai@mail.ru

1 Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

2 Scientific Center for Anti-Infectious Drugs, Almaty, Kazakhstan
