About the Authors

Brian B. Tuch

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian B. Tuch, Quinn M. Mitrovich

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Genetic Systems Division, Research and Development, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Quinn M. Mitrovich

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian B. Tuch, Quinn M. Mitrovich

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Oliver R. Homann

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Aaron D. Hernday

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cinna K. Monighetti

Affiliation Genetic Systems Division, Research and Development, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Francisco M. De La Vega

Affiliation Genetic Systems Division, Research and Development, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Alexander D. Johnson

ajohnson@cgl.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Some of the authors (BBT, CKM, FMD) of this manuscript are or were employees of Life Technologies, which manufactures the sequencing instrument and some materials used in this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BBT QMM FMDLV ADJ. Performed the experiments: QMM ADH CKM. Analyzed the data: BBT QMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BBT QMM ORH FMDLV. Wrote the paper: BBT QMM ADJ.