About the Authors

Jeffrey W. Touchman

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey W. Touchman, David M. Wagner

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jtouchman@tgen.org

Affiliations The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariziona, United States of America

David M. Wagner

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey W. Touchman, David M. Wagner

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariziona, United States of America

Jicheng Hao

Affiliation The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America

Stephen D. Mastrian

Affiliation The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America

Maulik K. Shah

Affiliation The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America

Amy J. Vogler

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariziona, United States of America

Christopher J. Allender

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariziona, United States of America

Erin A. Clark

Affiliation The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America

Debbie S. Benitez

Affiliation The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America

David J. Youngkin

Affiliation The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America

Jessica M. Girard

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariziona, United States of America

Raymond K. Auerbach

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariziona, United States of America

Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg

Affiliations The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariziona, United States of America

Paul Keim

Affiliations The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Ariziona, United States of America, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariziona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PK JT DW SB. Performed the experiments: AV CA JH SM EC DB DY. Analyzed the data: JT DW JG RA JH MS SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV CA. Wrote the paper: PK JT DW.