Competing interests
A.L.O. and D.A.R. are co-founders of Phenobiome, a company pursuing development of computational tools for predictive phenotype profiling of microbial communities. C.B.L. is a co-founder of Infinant Health, interVenn Bio and BCD Bioscience—companies involved in the characterization of glycans and developing carbohydrate applications for human health. A joint patent application between Washington University in St Louis and icddr,b has been filed, entitled “Synbiotic combination of selected strains of 