About the Authors

Susannah G. Tringe

Contributed equally to this work with: Susannah G. Tringe, Tao Zhang

Affiliations Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Tao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Susannah G. Tringe, Tao Zhang

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Xuguo Liu

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Yiting Yu

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Wah Heng Lee

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Jennifer Yap

Affiliation Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Fei Yao

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Sim Tiow Suan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Seah Keng Ing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Matthew Haynes

Affiliation Biology Department and Center for Microbial Science, San Diego State University, North Life Sciences, San Diego, California, United States of America

Forest Rohwer

Affiliation Biology Department and Center for Microbial Science, San Diego State University, North Life Sciences, San Diego, California, United States of America

Chia Lin Wei

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Patrick Tan

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

James Bristow

Affiliations Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Edward M. Rubin

ruanyj@gis.a-star.edu.sg (YR); emrubin@lbl.gov (ER)

Affiliations Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Yijun Ruan

ruanyj@gis.a-star.edu.sg (YR); emrubin@lbl.gov (ER)

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER YR. Performed the experiments: TZ MH FR ST XL FY SI. Analyzed the data: YR WL TZ PT MH FR JB ST XL YY SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER CW SS JY. Wrote the paper: YR TZ PT ST.