About the Authors
- T. David Matthews
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America
- Robert Schmieder
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Affiliation Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America
- Genivaldo G. Z. Silva
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Affiliation Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America
- Julia Busch
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America
- Noriko Cassman
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Current address: Netherlands Institute for Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America
- Bas E. Dutilh
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Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Dawn Green
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Current address: Roche Nimblegen, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Brian Matlock
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Brian Heffernan
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Gary J. Olsen
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Leigh Farris Hanna
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Affiliation Molecular Sciences Department, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, 858 Madison Ave, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Dieter M. Schifferli
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Affiliation University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, 3800 Spruce St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States of America
- Stanley Maloy
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America
- Elizabeth A. Dinsdale
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America
- Robert A. Edwards
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* E-mail: redwards@mail.sdsu.edu
Affiliations Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, United States of America, Department of Marine Biology, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, Illinois, 60349, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RAE DMS SM. Performed the experiments: RAE TDM JB NC DG BM BH LFH. Analyzed the data: BD RS GGZS GJO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BD EAD RS. Wrote the paper: TDM EAD SM RAE.