About the Authors

Joshua J. Timmons

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

Affiliation Lattice Automation Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Doug Densmore

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dougd@bu.edu

Affiliations Lattice Automation Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

J.T. is employed at and D.D. is a shareholder in Lattice Automation, Inc. which makes commercial software for biologists. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All software and data affiliated with this publication is and will remain accessible and open-source.