About the Authors

I-Min A. Chen

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Victor M. Markowitz

vmmarkowitz@lbl.gov

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ken Chu

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Iain Anderson

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Konstantinos Mavromatis

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Nikos C. Kyrpides

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Natalia N. Ivanova

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, 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: I-MAC VMM IA KM NCK NNI. Performed the experiments: I-MAC IA KC. Wrote the paper: I-MAC VMM KM NCK NNI. Analyzed the data: VMM IA KM NCK NNI.