About the Authors
- Akinori Matsushika
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* E-mail: a-matsushika@aist.go.jp
Affiliation Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hiroshima, Japan
- Atsushi Nagashima
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Affiliation Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc., Yamagata, Japan
- Tetsuya Goshima
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Affiliation Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hiroshima, Japan
- Tamotsu Hoshino
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Affiliations Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Hiroshima, Japan, Graduated School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have collaborated with Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc. in this work. As per journal requirements, the authors declare that they have no financial competing interests and have no other competing interests relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AM AN TH. Performed the experiments: AM TG. Analyzed the data: AM AN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM AN. Wrote the paper: AM.