About the Authors

Jacqueline Y. Quinn

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacqueline Y. Quinn, Robert Sidney Cox III

Affiliation Autodesk Research, Autodesk Inc., San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert Sidney Cox III

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacqueline Y. Quinn, Robert Sidney Cox III

Affiliation Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Aaron Adler

Affiliation Information and Knowledge Technologies, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jacob Beal

Affiliation Information and Knowledge Technologies, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Swapnil Bhatia

Affiliation Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yizhi Cai

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Joanna Chen

Affiliations Fuels Synthesis and Technologies Divisions, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Kevin Clancy

Affiliation Synthetic Biology Unit, ThermoFisher Scientific, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Michal Galdzicki

Affiliation Arzeda Corp, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nathan J. Hillson

Affiliations Fuels Synthesis and Technologies Divisions, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Nicolas Le Novère

Affiliation Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Akshay J. Maheshwari

Affiliation Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

James Alastair McLaughlin

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Chris J. Myers

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Umesh P

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Kerala, India

Matthew Pocock

Affiliations School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Turing Ate My Hamster LTD, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Cesar Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Larisa Soldatova

Affiliation Computer Science, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom

Guy-Bart V. Stan

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Neil Swainston

Affiliation Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Specialty Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Anil Wipat

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Herbert M. Sauro

hsauro@uw.edu

Affiliation Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: SB is co-founder of Lattice Automation, a company that develops software tools for synthetic biology.