About the Authors

Sarah M. Hücker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Chair for Microbial Ecology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany, ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Zachary Ardern

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Chair for Microbial Ecology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany, ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Tatyana Goldberg

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Informatics—Bioinformatics & TUM-IAS, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Andrea Schafferhans

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Informatics—Bioinformatics & TUM-IAS, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Michael Bernhofer

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Informatics—Bioinformatics & TUM-IAS, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Gisle Vestergaard

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Research Unit Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Chase W. Nelson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History New York, New York, United States of America

Michael Schloter

Roles Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Research Unit Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Burkhard Rost

Roles Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Informatics—Bioinformatics & TUM-IAS, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Siegfried Scherer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Chair for Microbial Ecology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany, ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Klaus Neuhaus

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

neuhaus@tum.de

Affiliations Chair for Microbial Ecology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany, Core Facility Microbiome/NGS, ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.