About the Authors

Matthew K. Waldor

mwaldor@research.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology Harvard Medical School and HHMI, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gene Tyson

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ecogenomics and Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Elhanan Borenstein

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Howard Ochman

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Andrew Moeller

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

B. Brett Finlay

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Heidi H. Kong

Affiliation Dermatology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey I. Gordon

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Karen E. Nelson

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Karim Dabbagh

Affiliation Second Genome, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hamilton Smith

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.