Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Health (R01GM01108348)
The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics (Compressive Metagenomics Pilot Grant)
National Institute of Health (T15LM007092)
National Institute of Health (R01GM01108348)
The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics (Compressive Metagenomics Pilot Grant)
U.S. Department of State (International Fulbright Science & Technology Fellowship)
MIT School of Science (Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology Fellowship)
Article History
Received: 23 May 2019
Accepted: 10 January 2020
First Online: 24 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Most of the results in this paper are based on publicly available whole metagenome sequencing read data from NCBI’s SRA, EMBL-EBI’s ENA, and JGI. Use of these data does not require ethics approval. The unpublished data from the Eric Alm lab (MIT) was collected with proper ethics approval and consents from participants and is available upon request.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.