David Ulaeto a, Alexander Agafonov b, Jennifer Burchfield c, e, Lisa Carter e, Christian Happi g, Robert Jakob f, Eva Krpelanova f, Krutika Kuppalli e, Elliot J Lefkowitz h, Matthew R Mauldin d, Tulio de Oliveira i, Bernard Onoja e, j, James Otieno e, Andrew Rambaut k, Lorenzo Subissi e, Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye e, l, Rosamund F Lewis e 
a Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Salisbury, UK
b WHO Collaborating Centre for Orthopoxvirus Diagnosis and Repository for Variola Virus Strains and DNA, FBRI SRC VB VECTOR, Rospotrebnadzor, Koltsovo, Russia
c National Centre for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
d WHO Collaborating Centre for Smallpox and other Poxviruses, National Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
e Health Emergencies Programme, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
f Data Analytics and Delivery for Impact Division, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
g African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria
h Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
i School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, and Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
j College of Medicine, Ibadan University, Ibadan, Nigeria
k Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
l Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria