About the Authors

William T. Scott Jr.

Contributed equally to this work with: William T. Scott Jr., Sara Benito-Vaquerizo

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

william.scott@wur.nl

Affiliations Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands, UNLOCK, Wageningen University & Research and Delft University of Technology, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Sara Benito-Vaquerizo

Contributed equally to this work with: William T. Scott Jr., Sara Benito-Vaquerizo

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Johannes Zimmermann

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Research Group Medical Systems Biology, Kiel, Germany

Djordje Bajić

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

Almut Heinken

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inserm U1256 Laboratoire nGERE, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

Maria Suarez-Diez

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Peter J. Schaap

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

Affiliations Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands, UNLOCK, Wageningen University & Research and Delft University of Technology, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AH is one of the developers of the Microbiome Toolbox. JZ is one of the developers of BacArena. DB is one of the developers of COMETS.