A systematic pipeline for classifying bacterial operons reveals the evolutionary landscape of biofilm machineries

• Cedoljub Bundalovic-Torma,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8741-4457

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• Gregory B. Whitfield,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Département de Microbiologie, Infectiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

  Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Lindsey S. Marmont,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• P. Lynne Howell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2776-062X

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• John Parkinson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: john.parkinson@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-1189

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