About the Authors
- Iain Anderson
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* E-mail: IJAnderson@lbl.gov
Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Luke E. Ulrich
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Affiliation Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
- Boguslaw Lupa
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Dwi Susanti
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Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Iris Porat
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Current address: Biological and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Sean D. Hooper
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Athanasios Lykidis
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Magdalena Sieprawska-Lupa
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Lakshmi Dharmarajan
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Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Eugene Goltsman
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Alla Lapidus
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Elizabeth Saunders
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Cliff Han
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Miriam Land
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Affiliation Bioscience Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
- Susan Lucas
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
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Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- William B. Whitman
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Carl Woese
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- James Bristow
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Nikos Kyrpides
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Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CW JB NCK. Performed the experiments: SDH AL EG AL ES CSH MLL SL. Analyzed the data: IA LEU BL DS IP LD BM WW NCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSL. Wrote the paper: IA LEU BL DS IP BM WW NCK.