About the Authors

Jeremy Foster

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mehul Ganatra

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ibrahim Kamal

Current address: Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science Ain Shams University, Abassiah, Cairo, Egypt

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer Ware

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kira Makarova

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Natalia Ivanova

Current address: Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anamitra Bhattacharyya

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vinayak Kapatral

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sanjay Kumar

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Janos Posfai

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tamas Vincze

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica Ingram

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laurie Moran

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alla Lapidus

Current address: Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Marina Omelchenko

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nikos Kyrpides

Current address: Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Elodie Ghedin

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shiliang Wang

Affiliation Parasite Genomics, Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Eugene Goltsman

Current address: Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Victor Joukov

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Olga Ostrovskaya

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kiryl Tsukerman

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mikhail Mazur

Affiliation Integrated Genomics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Donald Comb

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eugene Koonin

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Barton Slatko

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dnaseq@neb.com

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Division, New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

J. Foster, A. Lapidus, E. Ghedin, V. Joukov, K. Tsukerman, and B. Slatko conceived and designed the experiments. J. Foster, M. Ganatra, I. Kamal, J. Ware, A. Bhattacharyya, V. Kapatral, J. Ingram, L. Moran, A. Lapidus, E. Goltsman, V. Joukov, O. Ostrovskaya, K. Tsukerman, M. Mazur, and B. Slatko performed the experiments. J. Foster, M. Ganatra, I. Kamal, J. Ware, K. Makarova, N. Ivanova, A. Bhattacharyya, V. Kapatral, S. Kumar, J. Posfai, T. Vincze, A. Lapidus, M. Omelchenko, N. Kyrpides, E. Ghedin, E. Goltsman, V. Joukov, K. Tsukerman, M. Mazur, E. Koonin, S. Wang, and B. Slatko analyzed the data. J. Foster, M. Ganatra, I. Kamal, J. Ware, K. Makarova, N. Ivanova, A. Bhattacharyya, S. Kumar, J. Posfai, J. Ingram, A. Lapidus, N. Kyrpides, E. Ghedin, E. Goltsman, D. Comb, E. Koonin, and B. Slatko contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. J. Foster, M. Ganatra, J. Ware, K. Makarova, N. Ivanova, S. Kumar, J. Ingram, L. Moran, D. Comb, E. Koonin, and B. Slatko wrote the paper.