About the Authors

Cong-Hui Yao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gao-Yuan Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Bioorganic and Molecular Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rencheng Wang

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sung Ho Moon

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Bioorganic and Molecular Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Richard W. Gross

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Bioorganic and Molecular Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gary J. Patti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gjpattij@wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

GJP is a scientific advisory board member for Cambridge Isotope Laboratories. GJP is the recipient of the 2017 Early Career Professor Award from Agilent Technologies. RWG has financial relationships with LipoSpectrum and Platomics.