About the Authors

Neil Swainston

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

neil.swainston@manchester.ac.uk

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

Riza Batista-Navarro

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Pablo Carbonell

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Paul D. Dobson

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Mark Dunstan

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Adrian J. Jervis

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Maria Vinaixa

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Alan R. Williams

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Sophia Ananiadou

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jean-Loup Faulon

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Specialty Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Evry, Val d'Essonne, Evry, France, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Pedro Mendes

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Medicine, UConn Health, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, United States of America

Douglas B. Kell

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Specialty Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Nigel S. Scrutton

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Specialty Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Rainer Breitling

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Specialty Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.