About the Authors

Chengwei Luo

Affiliation School of Biology and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Despina Tsementzi

Affiliation School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Nikos Kyrpides

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Timothy Read

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

kostas@ce.gatech.edu

Affiliations School of Biology and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL NK KTK. Performed the experiments: CL DT. Analyzed the data: CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK TR. Wrote the paper: CL KTK.