About the Authors

Paul J. McMurdie

Affiliation Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sebastian F. Behrens

Affiliation Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jochen A. Müller

Affiliation Department of Biology, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan Göke

Affiliation Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kirsti M. Ritalahti

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ryan Wagner

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Eugene Goltsman

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alla Lapidus

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Susan Holmes

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Frank E. Löffler

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alfred M. Spormann

spormann@stanford.edu

Affiliation Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJM SFB FEL AMS. Performed the experiments: PJM SFB KMR. Analyzed the data: PJM SFB JAM JG KMR RW EG AL SH FEL AMS. Wrote the paper: PJM SFB JAM FEL AMS.