About the Authors

Justin Hsia

jhsia@eecs.berkeley.edu

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

William J. Holtz

Current Address: Lygos, Inc., Emeryville, CA, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Michel M. Maharbiz

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Murat Arcak

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jay D. Keasling

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Biological Systems & Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH WJH. Performed the experiments: JH. Analyzed the data: JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH WJH JDK. Wrote the paper: JH. Conception of work: JH WJH MMM MA. Interpretation of data: JH WJH MMM MA JDK. Revision of manuscript: WJH MMM MA JDK.