About the Authors

Iain Anderson

IJAnderson@lbl.gov

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Birte Abt

Affiliation Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Athanasios Lykidis

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Hans-Peter Klenk

Affiliation Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Nikos Kyrpides

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Natalia Ivanova

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IA BA AL HPK NK NI. Performed the experiments: IA BA AL NI. Analyzed the data: IA BA AL NI. Wrote the paper: IA BA AL NI.