About the Authors
- Naomi Ward
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nward@tigr.org
Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Øivind Larsen
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- James Sakwa
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Live Bruseth
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Hoda Khouri
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- A. Scott Durkin
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- George Dimitrov
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Lingxia Jiang
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- David Scanlan
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Katherine H Kang
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Matt Lewis
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Karen E Nelson
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Barbara Methé
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Martin Wu
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- John F Heidelberg
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Ian T Paulsen
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Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Derrick Fouts
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Jacques Ravel
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Hervé Tettelin
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Qinghu Ren
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Tim Read
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Robert T DeBoy
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Rekha Seshadri
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven L Salzberg
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Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Harald B Jensen
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Nils Kåre Birkeland
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- William C Nelson
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Robert J Dodson
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Svenn H Grindhaug
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Affiliation Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Ingeborg Holt
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Affiliation National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Ingvar Eidhammer
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Affiliation Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Inge Jonasen
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Affiliation Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Susan Vanaken
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Terry Utterback
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Tamara V Feldblyum
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Claire M Fraser
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Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Johan R Lillehaug
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Jonathan A Eisen
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Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.
Author Contributions
NW, CMF, JRL, and JAE conceived and designed the experiments. ØL, LB, HK, GD, LJ, DS, KK, ML, SV, TU, and TVF performed the experiments. NW, ØL, JS, LB, HK, ASD, GD, LJ, DS, KK, ML, KEN, BM, MW, JFH, ITP, DF, JR, HT, QR, TR, RD, RS, SLS, HBJ, NKB, WN, RJD, SV, TU, TVF, JRL, and JAE analyzed the data. SHG, IH, IE, and IJ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NW, ØL, JS, LB, BM, JFH, ITP, DF, JR, TR, RD, RS, HBJ, NKB, CMF, JRL, and JAE wrote the paper.