About the Authors

Iain Anderson

IJAnderson@lbl.gov

Affiliation Genome Biology Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Carmen Scheuner

Affiliation Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Braunschweig, Germany

Markus Göker

Affiliation Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Braunschweig, Germany

Kostas Mavromatis

Affiliation Genome Biology Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Sean D. Hooper

Affiliation Genome Biology Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Iris Porat

Affiliation INEOS Bio, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Hans-Peter Klenk

Affiliation Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Braunschweig, Germany

Natalia Ivanova

Affiliation Genome Biology Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Nikos Kyrpides

Affiliation Genome Biology Program, Department of Energy 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: H-PK NK. Performed the experiments: IA CS MG KM SDH IP NI. Analyzed the data: IA CS MG IP NI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM SDH. Wrote the paper: IA MG NI.