Article History
Received: 25 July 2018
Accepted: 10 October 2018
First Online: 22 November 2018
Change Date: 8 January 2019
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: The original version of this Article contained an error in Fig. 4. In the lower part of the three gene circuit diagrams in panel b, the flat-headed arrow linking lambdaCI to the tetR promoter incorrectly pointed to the tetR gene body. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of this Article.
Competing interests
: TKL is a co-founder of Senti Biosciences, Synlogic, Engine Biosciences, Tango Therapeutics, Corvium, BiomX, and Eligo Biosciences. TKL also holds financial interests in nest.bio, Ampliphi, IndieBio, and MedicusTek. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.