https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3154-0638
About the Authors
- Andreas Hiergeist
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Andreas.Hiergeist@ukr.de
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Jean Ruelle
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation SmartGene Services SARL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Stefan Emler
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation SmartGene Services SARL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- André Gessner
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Competing Interests
Jean Ruelle and Stefan Emler are employees of SmartGene, a company marketing cloud-based solutions for microbiome analysis. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.