About the Authors

Aaditya V. Rangan

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

avr209@nyu.edu

Affiliation Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Caroline C. McGrouther

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Nivedita Bhadra

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Quantitative Medicine and Systems Biology, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Stephanie Venn-Watson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Seraphina Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Eric D. Jensen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation US Navy Marine Mammal Program, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, San Diego, California, United States of America

Nicholas J. Schork

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

Affiliations Quantitative Medicine and Systems Biology, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, Seraphina Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, 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: S.V. is a co-founder of and employed by Epitracker, Inc and Seraphina Therapeutics, Inc, which hold exclusive licensing rights from the U.S. Navy to commercialize odd-chain saturated fatty acids as human and animal health products.