About the Authors
- Konstantinos Billis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Konstantinos Billis, Maria Billini
* E-mail: kbillis@lbl.gov (KB); kmavrommatis@lbl.gov (KM)
Affiliations Microbial Genome and Metagenome Program, DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Maria Billini
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Contributed equally to this work with: Konstantinos Billis, Maria Billini
Affiliations Microbial Genome and Metagenome Program, DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Group of Prokaryotic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, Faculty of Biology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
- H. James Tripp
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Affiliation Microbial Genome and Metagenome Program, DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Nikos C. Kyrpides
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Affiliations Microbial Genome and Metagenome Program, DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Konstantinos Mavromatis
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* E-mail: kbillis@lbl.gov (KB); kmavrommatis@lbl.gov (KM)
Affiliations Microbial Genome and Metagenome Program, DOE-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Computational Biology Group, Celgene Corp, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MB KM NCK. Performed the experiments: MB KM. Analyzed the data: KB KM MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB MB KM HJT. Wrote the paper: KB MB HJT NCK KM.