About the Authors

Ravi D. Barabote

Affiliations Bioscience Division, M888, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Gary Xie

Affiliations Bioscience Division, M888, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Thomas S. Brettin

Affiliations Bioscience Division, M888, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Steven H. Hinrichs

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Paul D. Fey

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Justin J. Jay

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Jennifer L. Engle

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Shubhada D. Godbole

Affiliation BioHealthBase/Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jyothi M. Noronha

Affiliation BioHealthBase/Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Richard H. Scheuermann

Affiliation BioHealthBase/Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Liwei W. Zhou

Affiliation BioHealthBase/Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Christine Lion

Affiliation Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire, Nancy, France

Michael P. Dempsey

dempseym@afip.osd.mil

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDB TSB SHH PDF CL MPD. Performed the experiments: RDB GX JLE SDG JMN RHS LWZ MPD. Analyzed the data: RDB JJJ SDG JMN RHS LWZ MPD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDB JJJ JLE SDG JMN RHS LWZ MPD. Wrote the paper: RDB MPD.