About the Authors

Samantha N. McNulty

snpiper@artsci.wustl.edu

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeremy M. Foster

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Makedonka Mitreva

Affiliation The Genome Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Julie C. Dunning Hotopp

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

John Martin

Affiliation The Genome Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kerstin Fischer

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Bo Wu

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul J. Davis

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sanjay Kumar

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Norbert W. Brattig

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Barton E. Slatko

Affiliation New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gary J. Weil

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Peter U. Fischer

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

JF, BW, PJD, SK and BS are employees of New England Biolabs. This funder is commercial but explicitly states that it played no role in the study design, data collection, and data analysis.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SNM JMF MM JDH KF BW SK NWB BS GJW PUF. Performed the experiments: SNM JMF JDH KF BW. Analyzed the data: SNM JMF MM JDH JM KF BW PJD SK NWB BS GJW PUF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM JDH SK NWB BS GJW PUF. Wrote the paper: SNM.