About the Authors
- Nikos C. Kyrpides
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* E-mail: nckyrpides@lbl.gov (NCK); Hans-Peter.Klenk@dsmz.de (HPK)
Affiliations DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Philip Hugenholtz
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Affiliation Australian Centre for Ecogenomics Research, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Jonathan A. Eisen
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Affiliation University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Tanja Woyke
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Affiliation DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Markus Göker
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Affiliation DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
- Charles T. Parker
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Affiliation NamesforLife, LLC, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Rudolf Amann
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Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
- Brian J. Beck
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Affiliation American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, Virginia, United States of America
- Patrick S. G. Chain
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Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Jongsik Chun
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences and Chunlab Inc., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Rita R. Colwell
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Affiliations University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Antoine Danchin
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Affiliation AMAbiotics SAS, Genopole, Evry, France
- Peter Dawyndt
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Affiliation Ghent University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent, Belgium
- Tom Dedeurwaerdere
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Affiliation Centre for Philosophy of Law, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- Edward F. DeLong
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Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- John C. Detter
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Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Paul De Vos
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Affiliations Ghent University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent, Belgium, Ghent University, BCCM/LMG Bacteria collection, Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent, Belgium
- Timothy J. Donohue
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Affiliation University of Wisconsin-Madison, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Xiu-Zhu Dong
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Affiliation Bioresource Center (BRC) of Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
- Dusko S. Ehrlich
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Affiliation Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy en Josas, France
- Claire Fraser
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Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Richard Gibbs
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Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jack Gilbert
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Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America
- Paul Gilna
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Affiliation BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Frank Oliver Glöckner
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Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Bremen, Germany
- Janet K. Jansson
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Affiliation Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Jay D. Keasling
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Affiliations Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Rob Knight
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Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- David Labeda
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Affiliation ARS, USDA, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America
- Alla Lapidus
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Affiliations Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Algorithmic Biology Lab, St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Jung-Sook Lee
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Affiliation Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC), Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 111 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
- Wen-Jun Li
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Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Kunming, People's Republic of China
- Juncai MA
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Affiliation China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
- Victor Markowitz
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Affiliations DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Edward R. B. Moore
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Affiliation CCUG - Culture Collection University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy of the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Mark Morrison
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Affiliation Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
- Folker Meyer
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Affiliation Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America
- Karen E. Nelson
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Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Moriya Ohkuma
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Affiliation Riken Bioresource Center, Japan Collection of Microorganisms, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- Christos A. Ouzounis
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Affiliations Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research & Technology, Thessalonica, Greece, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Norman Pace
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Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- Julian Parkhill
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Affiliation The Pathogen Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nan Qin
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Ramon Rossello-Mora
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Affiliation Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain
- Johannes Sikorski
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Affiliation DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
- David Smith
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Affiliation CABI, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Mitch Sogin
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Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Evolution and Molecular Biology, MBL, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Rick Stevens
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Affiliation Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America
- Uli Stingl
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Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Ken-ichiro Suzuki
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Affiliation NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC), Kisarazu-shi, Chiba, Japan
- Dorothea Taylor
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Affiliation NamesforLife, LLC, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Jim M. Tiedje
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Brian Tindall
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Affiliation DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
- Michael Wagner
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Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- George Weinstock
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Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
- Jean Weissenbach
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Affiliation Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Genoscope, Evry, France
- Owen White
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Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Jun Wang
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Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lixin Zhang
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Affiliations Bioresource Center (BRC) of Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
- Yu-Guang Zhou
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Affiliation China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
- Dawn Field
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Affiliation U.K. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Environmental Bioinformatics Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
- William B. Whitman
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- George M. Garrity
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Affiliations NamesforLife, LLC, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Hans-Peter Klenk
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* E-mail: nckyrpides@lbl.gov (NCK); Hans-Peter.Klenk@dsmz.de (HPK)
Affiliation DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.