About the Authors

Brandon K. Swan

Affiliation Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Mark D. Chaffin

Affiliations Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America, Department of Biology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, United States of America

Manuel Martinez-Garcia

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Hilary G. Morrison

Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erin K. Field

Affiliation Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Nicole J. Poulton

Affiliation Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

E. Dashiell P. Masland

Affiliation Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Christopher C. Harris

Affiliation Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Alexander Sczyrba

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Patrick S. G. Chain

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Sergey Koren

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Tanja Woyke

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Ramunas Stepanauskas

rstepanauskas@bigelow.org

Affiliation Single Cell Genomics Center, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BKS MDC MMG RS. Performed the experiments: BKS MDC MMG HGM NJP EDPM PSGC RS. Analyzed the data: BKS MDC MMG HGM EKF CCH AS PSGC SK TW RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HGM EKF CCH AS PSGC SK TW. Wrote the paper: BKS MDC MMG EKF CCH RS.