About the Authors

Sean M. Gibbons

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Claire Duvallet

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Eric J. Alm

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ejalm@mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EJA is a co-founder of Finch Therapeutics, a microbiome therapeutics company.