Dawn Field

¹ Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Section, Mansfield Road, Oxford Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, OX1 3SR, United Kingdom,

George Garrity

² Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA,

Norman Morrison

³ School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK,

⁴ The NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre, Oxford Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK,

Jeremy Selengut

⁵ The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA,

Peter Sterk

⁶ EMBL Outstation — The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK,

Tatiana Tatusova

⁷ National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA,

Nick Thomson

⁸ The Pathogen Sequencing Unit, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK,