About the Authors

Petar I. Penev

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

Affiliations NASA Center for the Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Claudia Alvarez-Carreño

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations NASA Center for the Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Eric Smith

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NASA Center for the Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Physics, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Ronin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America

Anton S. Petrov

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

anton.petrov@biology.gatech.edu (ASP); loren.williams@chemistry.gatech.edu (LDW)

Affiliations NASA Center for the Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Loren Dean Williams

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

anton.petrov@biology.gatech.edu (ASP); loren.williams@chemistry.gatech.edu (LDW)

Affiliations NASA Center for the Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.