About the Authors

Todd J. Treangen

treangen@pasteur.fr

Current address: Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Département Génomes et Génétique, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2171, Paris, France, UPMC Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Atelier de Bioinformatique, Paris, France

Eduardo P. C. Rocha

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Département Génomes et Génétique, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2171, Paris, France, UPMC Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Atelier de Bioinformatique, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJT EPCR. Performed the experiments: TJT. Analyzed the data: TJT EPCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJT. Wrote the paper: TJT EPCR.