Santi Mestre-Fos: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Petar I. Penev:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-3824
Role: SoftwareRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
John Colin Richards: Role: InvestigationRole: Validation
William L. Dean: Role: Investigation
Robert D. Gray: Role: Investigation
Jonathan B. Chaires: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: ResourcesRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draft
Loren Dean Williams:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7215-4194
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Fenfei Leng: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
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Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
13
December
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 12
Electronic Location Identifier: e0226177
Affiliations
[1
]
Center for the Origin of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia,
United States of America
[2
]
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia,
United States of America
[3
]
School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia,
United States of America
[4
]
James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky,
United States of America
Florida International University, UNITED STATES
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-19-27856
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226177
PMC ID: 6910669
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Award ID: 80NSSC17K0295 and 80NSSC18K1139
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7215-4194
Loren Dean Williams
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002, National Institutes of Health;
Award ID: GM077422
Award Recipient
:
Jonathan B. Chaires
Funded by LDW and JBC. Grant Numbers: LDW (80NSSC17K0295 and 80NSSC18K1139), JBC (GM077422).
LDW (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). JBC (National Institute of Health
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https://www.nasa.gov/.
https://www.nih.gov/.
https://jgbf.org/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
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