About the Authors

Aldert Zomer

a.zomer@cukz.umcn.nl

Affiliations Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Peter Burghout

Affiliation Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Hester J. Bootsma

Affiliation Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Peter W. M. Hermans

Affiliation Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum

Affiliations Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, NIZO Food Research, Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, Ede, The Netherlands, TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest: Sacha A.F.T. van Hijum is employed by NIZO food research. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ PB HJB PWMH SAFTvH. Performed the experiments: PB HJB. Analyzed the data: AZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PWMH SAFTvH. Wrote the paper: AZ PB HJB PWMH SAFTvH. developed the FGweb framework used in this study: SvH.