About the Authors

Shannon J. Williamson

Contributed equally to this work with: Shannon J. Williamson, Lisa Zeigler Allen

shannon.j.williamson@gmail.com

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Lisa Zeigler Allen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shannon J. Williamson, Lisa Zeigler Allen

Affiliations Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Hernan A. Lorenzi

Affiliation Informatics, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Douglas W. Fadrosh

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Daniel Brami

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

Mathangi Thiagarajan

Affiliation Informatics, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

John P. McCrow

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Andrey Tovchigrechko

Affiliation Informatics, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Shibu Yooseph

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

J. Craig Venter

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJW JCV. Performed the experiments: SJW LZA DWF. Analyzed the data: SJW LZA HAL MT DB JPM AT SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJW LZA HAL JPM AT SY. Wrote the paper: SJW LZA HAL AT SY.