About the Authors

Bradley Michael Zamft

Contributed equally to this work with: Bradley Michael Zamft, Adam H. Marblestone

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam H. Marblestone

Contributed equally to this work with: Bradley Michael Zamft, Adam H. Marblestone

Affiliations Biophysics Program, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Konrad Kording

Affiliations Northwestern University, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiology, and Applied Mathematics, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Daniel Schmidt

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Martin-Alarcon

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Keith Tyo

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Edward S. Boyden

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

George Church

gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biophysics Program, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BMZ AHM KK DS DMA KT ESB GC. Performed the experiments: BMZ AHM DS DMA. Analyzed the data: BMZ AHM KK DS DMA ESB GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMZ AHM KK DS DMA ESB GC. Wrote the paper: BMZ AHM. Edited the paper: BMZ AHM KK DS DMA KT ESB GC.