About the Authors

Nicholas J. Croucher

nc3@sanger.ac.uk

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Simon R. Harris
Lars Barquist
Julian Parkhill
Stephen D. Bentley

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NJC JP SDB. Performed the experiments: NJC. Analyzed the data: NJC SRH LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJC JP. Wrote the paper: NJC JP SDB.