About the Authors

Jacob B. Roberts

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Alberto A. Nava

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Allison N. Pearson

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Matthew R. Incha

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

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Luis E. Valencia

Roles Validation

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Melody Ma

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Abhay Rao

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jay D. Keasling

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

jdkeasling@lbl.gov

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University Denmark, Kemitorvet, Denmark

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J.D.K. has relationships with and financial interests in Lygos, Demetrix, Apertor Labs, Ansa Biosciences, Cyklos Materials, Elsevier, Center for Biosustainability at Technical University of Denmark, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Napigen, Kalion, Praj, Zero Acre Farms, ResVita Bio, Orbillion, and Keasling Consulting. J.B.R. has financial interests in AlkaLi Labs.