About the Authors

Dirk Gevers

dgevers@broadinstitute.org (DG); mpop@umiacs.umd.edu (MP); pschloss@umich.edu (PS); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

Affiliation The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mihai Pop

dgevers@broadinstitute.org (DG); mpop@umiacs.umd.edu (MP); pschloss@umich.edu (PS); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick D. Schloss

dgevers@broadinstitute.org (DG); mpop@umiacs.umd.edu (MP); pschloss@umich.edu (PS); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Curtis Huttenhower

dgevers@broadinstitute.org (DG); mpop@umiacs.umd.edu (MP); pschloss@umich.edu (PS); chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu (CH)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.