1. 1J. Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
2. 3Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
3. 2NERC Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, OX1 3SR, UK
4. 4Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
5. 10Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
6. 6Microbial Genomics Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and Jacobs University Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
7. 7Information Technology Center, The MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
8. 8Seattle Children’s Hospital, 1900 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
9. 9DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
10. 11School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
11. 12University of Maryland School of Medicine, 801 West Baltimore Street, Room 661, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
12. 13National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6510, USA
13. 14University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA