About the Authors

Sean M. Gibbons

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Sean M. Kearney

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Chris S. Smillie

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Eric J. Alm

ejalm@mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SMG SMK EJA. Data curation: SMG. Formal analysis: SMG SMK. Funding acquisition: EJA. Investigation: SMG SMK. Methodology: SMG SMK CSS EJA. Project administration: SMG EJA. Resources: EJA. Supervision: EJA. Validation: SMG SMK. Visualization: SMG SMK CSS EJA. Writing – original draft: SMG. Writing – review & editing: SMG SMK CSS EJA.