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Competing Interests

J Gregory Caporaso is an Academic Editor for PeerJ.

Author Contributions

Jai Ram Rideout conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

John H Chase conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Evan Bolyen conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Gail Ackermann analyzed the data, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Antonio Gonzalez conceived and designed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Rob Knight conceived and designed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.

J Gregory Caporaso conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

http://keemei.qiime.org

Funding

This work was funded in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to RK and JGC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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