About the Authors

Hannah Lees

Affiliation Section of Computational and Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Swann

Affiliation Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Simon M. Poucher

Current address: CrystecPharma, Crystec Ltd, Bradford, United Kingdom

Affiliation Cardiovascular and Gastro-Intestinal Disorders Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Alderley Park, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Jeremy K. Nicholson

Affiliation Section of Computational and Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Elaine Holmes

Affiliation Section of Computational and Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ian D. Wilson

Affiliation Section of Computational and Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Julian R. Marchesi

MarchesiJR@cardiff.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Centre for Digestive and Gut Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: SMP and IDW were employees of AstraZeneca, the funder of this study, at the time of this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IDW. Performed the experiments: HL. Analyzed the data: HL JRM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IDW SMP. Wrote the paper: HL JS SMP JKN EH IDW JRM.