About the Authors
- Adam M Phillippy
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: amp@umiacs.umd.edu
Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Jacquline A Mason
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Affiliation Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Kunmi Ayanbule
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Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Daniel D Sommer
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Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Elisa Taviani
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Affiliation Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Anwar Huq
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Affiliation Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Rita R Colwell
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Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America , Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Ivor T Knight
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Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America , Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven L Salzberg
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Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
AMP, KA, and SLS designed Insignia. DDS tested Insignia and managed the computing cluster. JAM and ITK designed and performed the validation experiments. ET, AH, and RRC determined the validation strains and contributed the DNA samples. AMP, JAM, ITK, and SLS prepared the manuscript.