About the Authors

Martin Allgaier

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Amitha Reddy

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Joshua I. Park

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biomass Science and Conversion Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Natalia Ivanova

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Patrik D'haeseleer

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Microbial Systems Biology Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Steve Lowry

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Rajat Sapra

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biomass Science and Conversion Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Terry C. Hazen

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Blake A. Simmons

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biomass Science and Conversion Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Jean S. VanderGheynst

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Philip Hugenholtz

phugenholtz@lbl.gov

Affiliations Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA AR JSV PH. Performed the experiments: MA AR JIP. Analyzed the data: MA AR JIP NI PD SL JSV PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS TCH BAS JSV PH. Wrote the paper: MA AR JSV PH.