About the Authors
- Anthony A. Fodor
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Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
- Todd Z. DeSantis
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Affiliation Bioinformatics Department, Second Genome, Inc., San Bruno, California, United States of America
- Kristine M. Wylie
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, The Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Jonathan H. Badger
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Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics Department. J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Yuzhen Ye
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Affiliation School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
- Theresa Hepburn
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Affiliation Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ping Hu
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Affiliation Earth Science Division, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Erica Sodergren
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, The Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Konstantinos Liolios
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Affiliation Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Heather Huot-Creasy
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Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Bruce W. Birren
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Affiliation Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ashlee M. Earl
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* E-mail: aearl@broadinstitute.org
Affiliation Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
One author is affiliated with the company Second Genome. His employment at this company does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Furthermore, the other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AF TD KW ES JB BB AE. Performed the experiments: AF TD KW JB TH AE. Analyzed the data: AF AE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF TD PH YY KL HH-C. Wrote the paper: AF AE.