About the Authors

Lenny de Jaeger

Contributed equally to this work with: Lenny de Jaeger, Benoit M. Carreres

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioprocess Engineering and AlgaePARC, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Benoit M. Carreres

Contributed equally to this work with: Lenny de Jaeger, Benoit M. Carreres

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

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

Jan Springer

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Food and Biobased Research and AlgaePARC, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Peter J. Schaap

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Gerrit Eggink

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bioprocess Engineering and AlgaePARC, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Food and Biobased Research and AlgaePARC, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Vitor A. P. Martins Dos Santos

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, LifeGlimmer GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Rene H. Wijffels

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bioprocess Engineering and AlgaePARC, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Nord University, Bodø, Norway

Dirk E. Martens

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dirk.martens@wur.nl

Affiliation Bioprocess Engineering and AlgaePARC, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Agentschap NL, LifeGlimmer GmbH, and Unilever did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.