About the Authors

Chris L. Dupont

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris L. Dupont, John Larsson

cdupont@jcvi.org (CLD); john.larsson@su.se (JL)

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

John Larsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris L. Dupont, John Larsson

cdupont@jcvi.org (CLD); john.larsson@su.se (JL)

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Shibu Yooseph

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Karolina Ininbergs

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Johannes Goll

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Johannes Asplund-Samuelsson

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

John P. McCrow

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Narin Celepli

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Lisa Zeigler Allen

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Martin Ekman

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Andrew J. Lucas

Affiliation Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Åke Hagström

Affiliation Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment (SIME), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Mathangi Thiagarajan

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Björn Brindefalk

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Alexander R. Richter

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Anders F. Andersson

Affiliation KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Solna, Sweden

Aaron Tenney

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Daniel Lundin

Affiliation KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Solna, Sweden

Andrey Tovchigrechko

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Johan A. A. Nylander

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

Daniel Brami

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jonathan H. Badger

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Andrew E. Allen

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Douglas B. Rusch

Affiliation Informatics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jeff Hoffman

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Erling Norrby

Affiliation Center for History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

Robert Friedman

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jarone Pinhassi

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

J. Craig Venter

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Birgitta Bergman

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLD JL SY KI ÅH AEA JH EN RF JP JCV B. Bergman. Performed the experiments: CLD JL SY KI JG JAS JPM NC LZA ME AJL MT B. Brindefalk AR AA A. Tenney DL A. Tovchigrechko JAAN DB JB AEA DBR. Analyzed the data: CLD JL SY KI JG JAS JPM NC LZA ME AJL MT B. Brindefalk AR AA A. Tenney DL A. Tovchigrechko JAAN DB JB AEA DBR JP B. Bergman. Wrote the paper: CLD JL SY KI JG NC LZA ME B. Brindefalk JP B. Bergman.