About the Authors

Samuel Levy

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: slevy@jcvi.org

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Granger Sutton

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Pauline C Ng

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lars Feuk

Affiliation Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aaron L Halpern

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Brian P Walenz

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Nelson Axelrod

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jiaqi Huang

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ewen F Kirkness

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Gennady Denisov

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Yuan Lin

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey R MacDonald

Affiliation Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Andy Wing Chun Pang

Affiliation Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mary Shago

Affiliation Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Timothy B Stockwell

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Alexia Tsiamouri

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Vineet Bafna

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Vikas Bansal

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Saul A Kravitz

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Dana A Busam

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Karen Y Beeson

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Tina C McIntosh

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Karin A Remington

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Josep F Abril

Affiliation Genetics Department, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

John Gill

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jon Borman

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Yu-Hui Rogers

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Marvin E Frazier

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen W Scherer

Affiliation Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robert L Strausberg

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

J. Craig Venter

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SL, GS, PCN, LF, ALH, BPW, NA, JH, EFK, GD, VB, KAR, YHR, MEF, SWS, RLS, and JCV conceived and designed the experiments. SL, GS, PCN, LF, ALH, BPW, NA, JH, EFK, GD, VB, YL, JRM, AWCP, MS, AT, DAB, KYB, TCM, JG, JB, and YHR performed the experiments. All authors analyzed the data. NA, GD, YL, TBS, and VB contributed analysis tools. SL, GS, PCN, LF, ALH, BPW, JH, EFK, GD, TBS, AT, YHR, MEF, SWS, RLS, and JCV wrote the paper.