About the Authors

Harish Nagarajan

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jessica E. Butler

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna Klimes

Current address: Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yu Qiu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Karsten Zengler

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joy Ward

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nelson D. Young

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara A. Methé

Affiliation Department of Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Bernhard Ø. Palsson

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Derek R. Lovley

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian L. Barrett

cbarrett@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN CLB. Performed the experiments: HN AK JW CLB. Analyzed the data: HN JEB CLB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN JEB AK YQ KZ JW NDY BAM BP DL CLB. Wrote the paper: HN JEB AK CLB.