About the Authors

Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland

Current address: Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ECOSCOPE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Stephan G. König

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ECOSCOPE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Florent Mazel

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ECOSCOPE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

David C. Oliver

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lisa M. McEwen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ECOSCOPE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Health Information Science, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Kris Y. Hong

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ECOSCOPE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Steven J. Hallam

shallam@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ECOSCOPE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia, Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Genome Science and Technology Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

SJH is a co-founder of Koonkie Inc., a bioinformatics consulting company that designs and provides scalable algorithmic and data analytics solutions in the cloud.