About the Authors

Victor M. Markowitz

vmmarkowitz@lbl.gov (VMM); nckyrpides@lbl.gov (NCK)

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

I-Min A. Chen

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ken Chu

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ernest Szeto

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Krishna Palaniappan

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Biju Jacob

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Anna Ratner

Affiliation Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Konstantinos Liolios

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Ioanna Pagani

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Marcel Huntemann

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Konstantinos Mavromatis

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Natalia N. Ivanova

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Nikos C. Kyrpides

vmmarkowitz@lbl.gov (VMM); nckyrpides@lbl.gov (NCK)

Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy 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: VMM I-MAC KM NNI NCK. Performed the experiments: I-MAC KC ES KP BJ AR KL IP MH. Analyzed the data: VMM KM NNI NCK. Wrote the paper: VMM I-MAC KM NNI NCK.