About the Authors

R. Cameron Coates

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sheila Podell

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Anton Korobeynikov

Affiliations Algorithmic Biology Laboratory, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Alla Lapidus

Affiliations Algorithmic Biology Laboratory, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bionformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Pavel Pevzner

Affiliations Algorithmic Biology Laboratory, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David H. Sherman

Affiliation Life Sciences Institute and Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Eric E. Allen

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lena Gerwick

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

William H. Gerwick

wgerwick@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCC SP LG WHG. Performed the experiments: RCC SP AK AL LG. Analyzed the data: RCC SP AK AL LG WHG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP AK AL PP DHS EEA LG. Wrote the paper: RCC SP WHG.