About the Authors

Rachel Poretsky

microbe@uic.edu

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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

Luis M. Rodriguez-R

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

Chengwei Luo

Affiliations School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics 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

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

Affiliations School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics Computational Genomics, 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: RP DT KTK. Performed the experiments: RP DT. Analyzed the data: RP LMR CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RP LMR CL DT KTK. Wrote the paper: RP KTK.