About the Authors
- Hisae Tanaka
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Affiliation The Departments of Medicine, VA Palo Alto HCS and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
- Tammy L. Sirich
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Affiliation The Departments of Medicine, VA Palo Alto HCS and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
- Natalie S. Plummer
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Affiliation The Departments of Medicine, VA Palo Alto HCS and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
- Daniel S. Weaver
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Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Group, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States of America
- Timothy W. Meyer
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* E-mail: twmeyer@stanford.edu
Affiliation The Departments of Medicine, VA Palo Alto HCS and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Weaver is an employee of SRI International. He is allowed to spend some time collaborating with scientists outside SRI on matters of interest to him. His work on this project was done with the data the authors generated and with publicly available databases of microbial metabolic pathways and genetics. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HT TS NP DW TM. Performed the experiments: HT TS NP TM. Analyzed the data: HT TS DW TM. Wrote the paper: HT TS DW TM.