About the Authors

Clara Belzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Clara Belzer, Georg K. Gerber, Guus Roeselers

Current address: Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Georg K. Gerber

Contributed equally to this work with: Clara Belzer, Georg K. Gerber, Guus Roeselers

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guus Roeselers

Contributed equally to this work with: Clara Belzer, Georg K. Gerber, Guus Roeselers

Current address: Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mary Delaney

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea DuBois

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qing Liu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vera Belavusava

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vladimir Yeliseyev

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andres Houseman

Current address: Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew Onderdonk

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Colleen Cavanaugh

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lynn Bry

lbry@partners.org

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: “Lynn Bry and Georg Gerber have served as guest editors for PLoS One manuscripts”. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE's policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB GG GR CC AH AO LB. Performed the experiments: CB GG GR MD AD QL VB VY AH AO CC LB. Analyzed the data: CB GG GR MD AD VB AH AO CC LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG AH AO CC LB. Wrote the paper: CB GG AH AO LB.