About the Authors

Marnix H. Medema

Contributed equally to this work with: Marnix H. Medema, Peter Cimermancic

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Affiliations Department of Microbial Physiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Peter Cimermancic

Contributed equally to this work with: Marnix H. Medema, Peter Cimermancic

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andrej Sali

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eriko Takano

Affiliation Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Michael A. Fischbach

fischbach@fischbachgroup.org

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MAF is on the scientific advisory board of Warp Drive Bio.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHM PC AS ET MAF. Performed the experiments: MHM PC. Analyzed the data: MHM PC MAF. Wrote the paper: MHM PC AS ET MAF.