About the Authors

Søren D. Petersen

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Lucas Levassor

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Christine M. Pedersen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Jan Madsen

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Lea G. Hansen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Jie Zhang

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Ahmad K. Haidar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Rasmus J. N. Frandsen

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Jay D. Keasling

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Tilmann Weber

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Nikolaus Sonnenschein

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Michael K. Jensen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mije@biosustain.dtu.dk

Affiliation Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: M.K.J., L.G.H. J.D.K. and J.Z. are inventors on pending patent applications. M.K.J., L.G.H., J.D.K., and J.Z. have financial interest in Biomia Aps. J.D.K. also has a financial interest in Amyris, Lygos, Demetrix, Napigen, Apertor Pharmaceuticals, Maple Bio, Ansa Biotechnologies, Berkeley Yeast, and Zero Acre Farms. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.