About the Authors
- Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg
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Affiliations Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Raymond K. Auerbach
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Current address: Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Shubhada Godbole
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Affiliation BioHealthBase/University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- John V. Pearson
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Affiliation Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- James S. Beckstrom-Sternberg
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Zuoming Deng
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Current address: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Affiliation BioHealthBase/Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Christine Munk
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Affiliations Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, The Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Kristy Kubota
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Current address: Center for Public Health and Disasters, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Yan Zhou
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- David Bruce
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Affiliations Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, The Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Jyothi Noronha
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Affiliation BioHealthBase/University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Richard H. Scheuermann
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Affiliation BioHealthBase/University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Aihui Wang
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Affiliation BioHealthBase/Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Xianying Wei
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Current address: Daotech, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Affiliation BioHealthBase/Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Jianjun Wang
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Affiliation BioHealthBase/Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Jicheng Hao
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Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- David M. Wagner
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Thomas S. Brettin
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Affiliations Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, The Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Nancy Brown
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Affiliations Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, The Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Paul Gilna
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Current address: Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis project, San Diego, California, United States of America
Affiliations Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, The Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Paul S. Keim
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Paul.Keim@nau.edu
Affiliations Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PK PG DB. Performed the experiments: TB CM NB. Analyzed the data: JH SB JP JB RA SG JN RS ZD AW JW XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH SB JP JB RA SG ZD JW KK YZ. Wrote the paper: PK DW SB JP RA SG ZD.