Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors:

1. Netherlands Genomics Initiative
2. DSM
3. Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
4. BaseClear
5. The Delft University of Technology Department of Bionanoscience
6. The Delft University of Technology Department of Biotechnology

We would also like to thank our advisors:

1. Esengul Yildirim
2. Steven Flipse

We would also like to thank Ewout Boelsums for allowing us to use his panorama of Delft's market square on our website.