About the Authors

Sahar Abubucker

Affiliation The Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nicola Segata

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Johannes Goll

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

Alyxandria M. Schubert

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jacques Izard

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brandi L. Cantarel

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

Beltran Rodriguez-Mueller

Affiliation Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeremy Zucker

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

Mathangi Thiagarajan

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

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliation Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR 6098 CNRS, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Owen White

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

Scott T. Kelley

Affiliation Biology Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Barbara Methé

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

Patrick D. Schloss

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Dirk Gevers

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

Makedonka Mitreva

Affiliation The Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Curtis Huttenhower

chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OW DG MM CH. Performed the experiments: SA AMS CH. Analyzed the data: SA NS AMS JI BLC CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG BRM JZ MT BH STK BM PDS. Wrote the paper: SA NS CH. Implemented the software: NS BRM CH.