About the Authors

Casey-Tyler Berezin

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Luis U. Aguilera

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sonja Billerbeck

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Philip E. Bourne

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Douglas Densmore

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Freemont

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Thomas E. Gorochowski

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, BrisEngBio, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sarah I. Hernandez

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Nathan J. Hillson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, US Department of Energy Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America, US Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Connor R. King

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Michael Köpke

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation LanzaTech, Skokie, Illinois, United States of America

Shuyi Ma

Roles Validation

Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Katie M. Miller

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Tae Seok Moon

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Jason H. Moore

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Brian Munsky

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Chris J. Myers

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Dequina A. Nicholas

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Samuel J. Peccoud

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Wen Zhou

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jean Peccoud

jean.peccoud@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 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.P., S.P., and K.M. have a financial interest in GenoFAB, Inc., M.K. is an employee of LanzaTech. N.J.H. has a financial interest in TeselaGen Biotechnology, Inc. and Ansa Biotechnologies, Inc. GenoFAB Inc. and TeselaGen Biotechnology, Inc. provide research information management systems. These companies may benefit or be perceived as benefiting from this publication.