About the Authors

Michael J. Mansfield

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ Co-first authors

Affiliations Department of Biology, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, and Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, Japan

Benjamin J-M Tremblay

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ Co-first authors

Affiliation Department of Biology, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, and Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Ji Zeng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xin Wei

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biology, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, and Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Harold Hodgins

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biology, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, and Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Jay Worley

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lynn Bry

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Min Dong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

min.dong@childrens.harvard.edu (MD); acdoxey@uwaterloo.ca (ACD)

Affiliations Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew C. Doxey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

min.dong@childrens.harvard.edu (MD); acdoxey@uwaterloo.ca (ACD)

Affiliation Department of Biology, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, and Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.