About the Authors

Dirk Gevers

Affiliation The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rob Knight

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Joseph F. Petrosino

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Katherine Huang

Affiliation The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amy L. McGuire

Affiliation Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bruce W. Birren

Affiliation The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen E. Nelson

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Owen White

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Barbara A. Methé

bmethe@jcvi.org (BAM); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Curtis Huttenhower

bmethe@jcvi.org (BAM); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

Affiliations The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.