About the Authors

Dana Willner

Contributed equally to this work with: Dana Willner, Mike Furlan

willner9@aol.com

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

Mike Furlan

Contributed equally to this work with: Dana Willner, Mike Furlan

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

Matthew Haynes

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

Robert Schmieder

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

Florent E. Angly

Affiliations Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Computational Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Joas Silva

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

Sassan Tammadoni

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

Bahador Nosrat

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

Douglas Conrad

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, San Diego VA Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Forest Rohwer

Affiliations Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF MH DC FR. Performed the experiments: MF MH JS ST. Analyzed the data: DLW MH RS FEA BN. Wrote the paper: DLW FR.