About the Authors

Chloe Herman

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations 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

Evan Bolyen

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Anthony Simard

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Liz Gehret

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation 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 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

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EB and JGC are co-founders and hold equity in Cymis Benefit Corporation, a biological data science software company.