About the Authors

Konstantinos Mavromatis

KMavrommatis@lbl.gov

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

Natalia Ivanova

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

Iain Anderson

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

Athanasios Lykidis

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

Sean D. Hooper

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

Hui Sun

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

Victor Kunin

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

Philip Hugenholtz

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

Bharat Patel

Affiliation Microbial Gene Research and Resources Facility, School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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: NCK. Performed the experiments: BP. Analyzed the data: KM NI IA AL SDH HS VK AL PH NCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BP. Wrote the paper: KM NCK.