SW7 2AZ, UK.⁵⁷Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.⁵⁸Research Division Biochemical Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorferstraße 1a, 1060 Vienna, Austria.⁵⁹Broad Institute, 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.⁶⁰Present address: VTT Brasil, Alameda Inajá, 123, CEP 06460-055 Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil.⁶¹Present address: CSIRO Publishing, Unipark, Building 1 Level 1, 195 Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia.⁶²Present address: Université Libre de Bruxelles Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM), Brussels, Belgium.⁶³Present address: Instituto de Profesores Artigas, Consejo de Formación en Educación, ANEP, CP 11800Av. del Libertador 2025, Montevideo, Uruguay.⁶⁴Present Address: Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece.⁶⁵Present address: Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St.Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.⁶⁶Present address: Aix-Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM U1095, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Pôle des Maladies Infectieuses, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France.⁶⁷Present address: Swedish Chemicals Agency, Box 2172 13 Sundbyberg, Sweden.⁶⁸Present address: Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Dr. César Milstein, Fundación Pablo Cassará, CONICET, Saladillo 2468 C1440FFX, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.⁶⁹Present address: Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada.⁷⁰Present address: INRA UMR1198 Biologie du Développement et de la Reproduction - Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy en Josas 78352, Cedex, France.⁷¹Present address: Department Applied and Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Biotechnology, Berlin University of Technology, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, Germany.⁷²Present address: BaseClear B.V., Einsteinweg 5, 2333, CC, Leiden, The Netherlands.⁷³Present address: Seres Therapeutics, 200 Sidney St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.⁷⁴Present address: Centre of Functional and Structure Genomics Biology Department Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada.

Received: 5 July 2016 Accepted: 10 January 2017

Published online: 14 February 2017

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