About the Authors

Ufuk Nalbantoglu

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Khalid Sayood

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Michael P. Dempsey

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Peter C. Iwen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Stephen C. Francesconi

Affiliation Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Ravi D. Barabote

Affiliations Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Gary Xie

Affiliations Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Thomas S. Brettin

Affiliation Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Steven H. Hinrichs

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Paul D. Fey

pfey@unmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UN KS SHH PDF. Performed the experiments: UN KS RDB GX TSB PDF. Analyzed the data: UN KS RDB GX TSB SHH PDF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UN MPD PCI SCF RDB GX TSB SHH PDF. Wrote the paper: UN KS SHH PDF.