About the Authors

Claire Duvallet

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

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Caroline Zellmer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OpenBiome, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Pratik Panchal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation OpenBiome, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Shrish Budree

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation OpenBiome, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Majdi Osman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations OpenBiome, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Eric J. Alm

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ejalm@mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

EA is co-founder of Finch Therapeutics and is on the Board of Directors of OpenBiome. CZ, PP, SB, and MO are employed by OpenBiome. These commercial sources of funding do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.