About the Authors

Rashel V. Grindberg

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thomas Ishoey

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

Dumitru Brinza

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eduardo Esquenazi

Affiliations Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

R. Cameron Coates

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Wei-ting Liu

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lena Gerwick

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Pieter C. Dorrestein

Affiliations Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Pavel Pevzner

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Roger Lasken

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

William H. Gerwick

wgerwick@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 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: WHG RL PCD RVG. Performed the experiments: RVG TI DB EE RCC W-TL PCD RL. Analyzed the data: RVG TI DB EE RCC W-TL PCD PP RL WHG. Wrote the paper: RVG TI DB EE RCC W-TL LG PCD PP RL WHG. Developed de novo genome assembly algorithm: DB PP.