About the Authors

Patrik D'haeseleer

patrikd@llnl.gov

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

John M. Gladden

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America, Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Martin Allgaier

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Patrik S. G. Chain

Affiliations Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Metagenomics Applications Team, Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Susannah G. Tringe

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Stephanie A. Malfatti

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Joshua T. Aldrich

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Carrie D. Nicora

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Errol W. Robinson

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Ljiljana Paša-Tolić

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Philip Hugenholtz

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Blake A. Simmons

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Steven W. Singer

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG PD MA PH SWS BAS LPT JTA CDN EWR. Performed the experiments: JG MA JTA CDN. Analyzed the data: PD PSGC SGT JTA EWR PH SWS SAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LPT JTA CDN EWR. Wrote the paper: PD SWS CDN JTA PSGC.