About the Authors

Konstantinos Mavromatis

KMavrommatis@lbl.gov

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Miriam L. Land

Affiliation Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Thomas S. Brettin

Affiliation Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel J. Quest

Affiliation Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Alex Copeland

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alicia Clum

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Lynne Goodwin

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Tanja Woyke

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alla Lapidus

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Hans Peter Klenk

Affiliation Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Robert W. Cottingham

Affiliation Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Nikos C. Kyrpides

Affiliation 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: KM NK TW RC HK. Performed the experiments: KM ML AC AC AL. Analyzed the data: KM A. Clum ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DQ TB ML A. Copeland LG. Wrote the paper: KM.