About the Authors

Matthew R. Dillon

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew R. Dillon, Evan Bolyen

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Evan Bolyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew R. Dillon, Evan Bolyen

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Anja Adamov

Affiliation Laboratory of Food Systems Biotechnology, Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Aeriel Belk

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Cell and Molecular Biology Special Academic Unit, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Emily Borsom

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Zachary Burcham

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Cell and Molecular Biology Special Academic Unit, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Justine W. Debelius

Affiliation Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology, Tumor, and Cancer Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Heather Deel

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Cell and Molecular Biology Special Academic Unit, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Alex Emmons

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Cell and Molecular Biology Special Academic Unit, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Mehrbod Estaki

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Chloe Herman

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Christopher R. Keefe

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jamie T. Morton

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America

Renato R. M. Oliveira

Affiliation Environmental Genomics, Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Andrew Sanchez

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Anthony Simard

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza

Affiliation Center for Microbiome Innovation, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michal Ziemski

Affiliation Laboratory of Food Systems Biotechnology, Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Hazuki E. Miwa

Affiliation Academic Programs, Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Terry A. Kerere

Affiliation Academic Programs, Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carline Coote

Affiliation Academic Programs, Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Richard Bonneau

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America

Rob Knight

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Center for Microbiome Innovation, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Guilherme Oliveira

Affiliation Environmental Genomics, Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Piraveen Gopalasingam

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Benjamin D. Kaehler

Affiliation School of Science, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

Emily K. Cope

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jessica L. Metcalf

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Cell and Molecular Biology Special Academic Unit, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Michael S. Robeson II

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Nicholas A. Bokulich

Affiliation Laboratory of Food Systems Biotechnology, Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

J. Gregory Caporaso

greg.caporaso@nau.edu

Affiliation Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.