About the Authors

Karoline Faust

Contributed equally to this work with: Karoline Faust, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Jeroen Raes, Curtis Huttenhower

Affiliations Department of Structural Biology, VIB, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Applied Biological Sciences (DBIT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti

Contributed equally to this work with: Karoline Faust, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Jeroen Raes, Curtis Huttenhower

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jacques Izard

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicola Segata

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dirk Gevers

Affiliation Microbial Systems and Communities, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeroen Raes

Contributed equally to this work with: Karoline Faust, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Jeroen Raes, Curtis Huttenhower

jeroen.raes@vib-vub.be (JR); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

Affiliations Department of Structural Biology, VIB, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Applied Biological Sciences (DBIT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Curtis Huttenhower

Contributed equally to this work with: Karoline Faust, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Jeroen Raes, Curtis Huttenhower

jeroen.raes@vib-vub.be (JR); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Microbial Systems and Communities, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KF JFS JR CH. Performed the experiments: KF JFS CH. Analyzed the data: KF JFS JI NS DG JR CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS. Wrote the paper: KF JFS JI JR CH.