About the Authors
- Kira S. Makarova
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: makarova@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (KM); mdaly@usuhs.mil (MD)
Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Marina V. Omelchenko
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Elena K. Gaidamakova
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Vera Y. Matrosova
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Alexander Vasilenko
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Min Zhai
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Alla Lapidus
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Alex Copeland
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Edwin Kim
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Miriam Land
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Konstantinos Mavromatis
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Samuel Pitluck
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Paul M. Richardson
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Chris Detter
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Thomas Brettin
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Elizabeth Saunders
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Affiliation US Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Barry Lai
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Affiliation Environmental Research Division and Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America
- Bruce Ravel
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Affiliation Environmental Research Division and Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America
- Kenneth M. Kemner
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Affiliation Environmental Research Division and Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America
- Yuri I. Wolf
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Alexander Sorokin
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Anna V. Gerasimova
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Affiliation Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia
- Mikhail S. Gelfand
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Affiliations Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- James K. Fredrickson
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Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
- Eugene V. Koonin
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Michael J. Daly
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: makarova@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (KM); mdaly@usuhs.mil (MD)
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MD KM AL PR KK EG VM. Performed the experiments: BL KK CD ES EG VM AV MZ BR TB. Analyzed the data: EK MD MG YW KM MO AL AC ML BL KK JF CD ES EG VM BR TB AS AG SP EK KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK MG. Wrote the paper: MD KM. Other: JGI Genome-sequencing project coordinator: AL. Genome annotation QC: EK. Genome annotation: ML KM. Data management/transfer, NCBI submission: SP. Genome Library construction: CD. Genome finishing: TB ES. Programmers: AS AG JF. Contributed to writing the paper: EK.