About the Authors

Nicola Segata

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

Curtis Huttenhower

chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS CH. Performed the experiments: NS CH. Analyzed the data: NS CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS CH. Wrote the paper: NS CH. Implemented the methodology: NS.