About the Authors

Yan Chen

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

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jennifer W. Gin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Ying Wang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Markus de Raad

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Stephen Tan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Nathan J. Hillson

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Trent R. Northen

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Paul D. Adams

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Molecular Biophysics and Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Christopher J. Petzold

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cjpetzold@lbl.gov

Affiliations Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, DOE Agile BioFoundry, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

N.J.H. has financial interests in TeselaGen Biotechnologies, and Ansa Biotechnologies. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.