5 Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
6 Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
7 Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
8 Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
9 Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
10 State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
11 Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Sciences (CEPAMS), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences & John Innes Centre, Beijing, China.
12 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
13 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
14 Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
15 Hepatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
16 Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
17 Department of Population Health & Pathobiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
18 Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
19 Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
20 Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
21 Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA.
22 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
23 Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
24 A. Watson Armour III Center for Animal Health and Welfare, Aquarium Microbiome Project, John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL, USA.
25 Department of Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
26 Department of Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada.
27 Computational Bioscience Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
28 Department of Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
29 eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
30 Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
31 Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
32 Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
33 Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
34 Statistics Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
35 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
36 Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
37 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
38 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
39 Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany.
40 Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
41 School of Science, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
42 College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
43 Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA.
44 Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
45 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
46 Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
47 Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
48 Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.
49 Department of Microbiome Science, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
50 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
51 Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
52 Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
53 Department of Animal Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
54 Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Unit 2 (Biology), University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
55 Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA.
56 Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
57 School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
58 School of STEM, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA, USA.
59 Department of Biological Sciences, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
60 Agricultural Research Service, Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, FL, USA.
61 College of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.
62 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA.
63 Department of Biological Sciences and Northern Gulf Institute, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA.
64 Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, CA, USA.
65 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
66 Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
67 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
68 Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA.
69 Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
70 Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
71 National Laboratory Service, Environment Agency, Starcross, UK.
72 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
73 Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
74 Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
75 School of STEM, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA, USA.
76 Merck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA.
77 Center for Applied Microbiome Science, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. greg.caporaso@nau.edu.
78 Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. greg.caporaso@nau.edu.