About the Authors

Brent Townshend

Contributed equally to this work with: Brent Townshend, Matias Kaplan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Current address: Atomic AI, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Matias Kaplan

Contributed equally to this work with: Brent Townshend, Matias Kaplan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Atomic AI, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Christina D. Smolke

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

csmolke@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

Brent Townshend and Christina Smolke are co-inventors of patent US20200362333A1: "Molecular Sensor Selection". Matias Kaplan declares no competing interests exist.