About the Authors

Braden T. Tierney

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

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section on Pathophysiology and Molecular Pharmacology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elizabeth Anderson

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yingxuan Tan

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kajal Claypool

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sivateja Tangirala

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Aleksandar D. Kostic

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Section on Pathophysiology and Molecular Pharmacology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arjun K. Manrai

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

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chirag J. Patel

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

chirag_patel@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of the manuscript have the following competing interests: ADK is a co-founder of FitBiomics, Inc. and a member of their Scientific Advisory Board. B.T.T. consults for Seed Health on microbiome study design and analysis.