About the Authors

Josh L. Espinoza

Contributed equally to this work with: Josh L. Espinoza, Chris L. Dupont

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America, Department of Applied Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

Chris L. Dupont

Contributed equally to this work with: Josh L. Espinoza, Chris L. Dupont

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

cdupont@jcvi.org

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Aubrie O’Rourke

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

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Sinem Beyhan

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Pavel Morales

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Amy Spoering

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Kirsten J. Meyer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Agnes P. Chan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Yongwook Choi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

William C. Nierman

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

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Kim Lewis

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Karen E. Nelson

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

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States of America, Department of Applied Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The following authors, ALS, and KL, declare competing financial interests as they are employees and consultants of NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals.