About the Authors

Christopher L. Magee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

cmagee@mit.edu

Affiliations MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, SUTD-MIT International Design Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patrick W. Kleyn

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation EMD Serono Research & Development Institute, Billerica, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brendan M. Monks

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Ulrich Betz

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Subarna Basnet

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

Affiliations SUTD-MIT International Design Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raysoonga inc., Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Merck KGaA gave a research grant to MIT with the lead author (CLM) as the PI of the grant. Patrick W. Kleyn, Brendan M. Monks, Ulrich Betz are employed by Merck. No Merck interests affected the choice of what and where to publish but the topic (CRISPR) was of interest to Merck and learning what the MIT techniques showed in this case was also of interest to them. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.