About the Authors

Christopher R. Keefe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Matthew R. Dillon

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Elizabeth Gehret

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Chloe Herman

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Mary Jewell

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Colin V. Wood

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Evan Bolyen

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

J. Gregory Caporaso

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

greg.caporaso@nau.edu

Affiliations Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.