About the Authors

Tanja Woyke

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

Gary Xie

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

Alex Copeland

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

José M. González

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

Cliff Han

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

Hajnalka Kiss

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

Jimmy H. Saw

Affiliations Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Pavel Senin

Affiliations Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Chi Yang

Affiliations Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sourav Chatterji

Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America

Jan-Fang Cheng

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

Jonathan A. Eisen

Affiliations DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America

Michael E. Sieracki

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Ramunas Stepanauskas

rstepanauskas@bigelow.org

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW MS RS. Performed the experiments: AC HK MS RS. Analyzed the data: TW GX AC JMG CSH HK JS PS CY SC RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GX AC CSH HK JS PS CY SC JAE MS RS. Wrote the paper: TW GX JMG JFC MS RS.