About the Authors

Tao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Zhang, Mya Breitbart

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Mya Breitbart

Contributed equally to this work with: Tao Zhang, Mya Breitbart

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Wah Heng Lee

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Jin-Quan Run

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Chia Lin Wei

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Shirlena Wee Ling Soh

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Martin L Hibberd

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Edison T Liu

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Forest Rohwer

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yijun Ruan

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ruanyj@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

FR and YR conceived and designed the experiments. TZ, MB, JR, CLW, SWLS, and FR performed the experiments. TZ, MB, WHL, SWLS, and YR analyzed the data. TZ and YR wrote the paper. MB, MLH, ETL, and FR helped revise the paper.