About the Authors

Mark Welch

mwelch@DNA20.com

Affiliation DNA2.0, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Sridhar Govindarajan

Affiliation DNA2.0, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Jon E. Ness

Affiliation DNA2.0, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Alan Villalobos

Affiliation DNA2.0, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Austin Gurney

Affiliation OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Jeremy Minshull

Affiliation DNA2.0, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Claes Gustafsson

Affiliation DNA2.0, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare competing financial interests: DNA2.0 performs gene design optimization as a free service with the genes that it sells. The authors also declare competing interests in the form of two pending relevant US patent applications, nos. 12/184,240 and 12/184,234. Austin Gurney declares no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW ALG CG. Performed the experiments: MW SG. Analyzed the data: MW SG JEN JM CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG JEN AV ALG. Wrote the paper: MW JM CG.