About the Authors

Alexander Golberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Golberg, Gregory Linshiz

Affiliation Centre for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Shriners Burns Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gregory Linshiz

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Golberg, Gregory Linshiz

Affiliations Fuels Synthesis Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical BioSciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, California, United States of America, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Ilia Kravets

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Nina Stawski

Affiliations Fuels Synthesis Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical BioSciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Nathan J. Hillson

Affiliations Fuels Synthesis Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical BioSciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, California, United States of America, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Martin L. Yarmush

Affiliations Centre for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Shriners Burns Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States of America

Robert S. Marks

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology Engineering, The National Institute of Biotechnology in Negev, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, NRF CREATE program for Nanomaterials in Energy and Water Management, Singapore

Tania Konry

t.konry @neu.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern 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: AG GL TK. Performed the experiments: AG GL IK NS. Analyzed the data: AG GL TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG GL IK NS NH TK MY. Wrote the paper: AG GL NH TK. Read the manuscript: MY RM Supervised the work: MY RM.