About the Authors

Tyler W. H. Backman

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

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Christina Schenk

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

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, BCAM, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Tijana Radivojevic

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

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

David Ando

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jahnavi Singh

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Czajka

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Zak Costello

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jay D. Keasling

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Institute for Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, China

Yinjie Tang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Elena Akhmatskaya

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

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, BCAM, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

Hector Garcia Martin

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

hgmartin@lbl.gov

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, BCAM, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, 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: J.D.K. has financial interests in Amyris, Ansa Biotechnologies, Apertor Pharma, Berkeley Yeast, Cyklos Materials, Demetrix, Lygos, Napigen, ResVita Bio and Zero Acre Farms.