About the Authors

Zhixing Feng

Affiliations Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, and Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gang Fang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jonas Korlach

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Tyson Clark

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Khai Luong

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Xuegong Zhang

Affiliation Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, and Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Wing Wong

whwong@stanford.edu (WW); eric.schadt@mssm.edu (ES)

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Eric Schadt

whwong@stanford.edu (WW); eric.schadt@mssm.edu (ES)

Affiliations Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: ES, JK, TC, and KL are employees of Pacific Biosciences and own stock in the company.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZF GF XZ WW ES. Performed the experiments: JK TC KL. Analyzed the data: ZF GF JK TC KL ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZF GF JK TC KL. Wrote the paper: ZF GF XZ WW ES.