About the Authors

Vivien G. Dugan

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Scott J. Emrich

Affiliation University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón

Affiliation University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Omar S. Harb

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ruchi M. Newman

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brett E. Pickett

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lynn M. Schriml

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Timothy B. Stockwell

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Christian J. Stoeckert Jr

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dan E. Sullivan

Affiliation Cyberinfrastructure Division, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Indresh Singh

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Doyle V. Ward

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alison Yao

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jie Zheng

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tanya Barrett

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bruce Birren

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lauren Brinkac

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Vincent M. Bruno

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabet Caler

Current address: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Division of Lung Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sinéad Chapman

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frank H. Collins

Affiliation University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Christina A. Cuomo

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valentina Di Francesco

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Scott Durkin

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark Eppinger

Current address: Department of Biology & South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Feldgarden

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Claire Fraser

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

W. Florian Fricke

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Maria Giovanni

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Matthew R. Henn

Current address: Seres Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erin Hine

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Julie Dunning Hotopp

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jessica C. Kissinger

Affiliation University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Eun Mi Lee

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Punam Mathur

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Emmanuel F. Mongodin

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cheryl I. Murphy

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Garry Myers

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel E. Neafsey

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen E. Nelson

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

William C. Nierman

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Julia Puzak

Affiliation Kelly Government Solutions, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

David Rasko

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David S. Roos

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lisa Sadzewicz

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joana C. Silva

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Bruno Sobral

Affiliation Cyberinfrastructure Division, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

R. Burke Squires

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Rick L. Stevens

Affiliation Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, United States of America

Luke Tallon

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Herve Tettelin

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David Wentworth

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Owen White

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rebecca Will

Affiliation Cyberinfrastructure Division, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jennifer Wortman

Affiliation Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yun Zhang

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America

Richard H. Scheuermann

rscheuermann@jcvi.org

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, and La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest: Julia Puzak is employed by Kelly Government Solutions. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RMN LMS TBS CJS DES DVW FHC MG MRH JCK EML PM KEN JP DSR BS RLS HT DW OW RW JW RHS. Performed the experiments: SJE GIGC OSH RMN DVW JZ BB LB VMB EC SC CAC SD ME MF CF WFF EH JDH JCK EFM CIM GM DEN DR LS JCS RBS LT RW. Analyzed the data: SJE GIGC OSH RMN BEP LMS TBS CJS DES IS DVW JZ TB FHC IKM JCK CIM DEN WCN JP DSR JCS RLS HT RW JW RHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMS CJS IS JZ TB IKM. Wrote the paper: VGD SJE GIGC OSH RMN VDF MG BEP LMS TBS CJS DES IS DVW AY JZ YZ RHS.