About the Authors

Athanasios Lykidis

alykidis@lbl.gov

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Danilo Pérez-Pantoja

Affiliation Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, NM-EMBA, NM-PFG, and CASEB, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Thomas Ledger

Affiliations Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, NM-EMBA, NM-PFG, and CASEB, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencia, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile

Kostantinos Mavromatis

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Iain J. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Natalia N. Ivanova

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Sean D. Hooper

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alla Lapidus

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Susan Lucas

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Bernardo González

Affiliations Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, NM-EMBA, NM-PFG, and CASEB, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencia, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile

Nikos C. Kyrpides

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE)-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: AL DPP TL BG NCK. Performed the experiments: AL SL. Analyzed the data: AL DPP TL KM IA NI SDH BG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG. Wrote the paper: AL DPP TL IA BG NCK.