About the Authors

Sandra L. Spurgeon

Affiliation Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert C. Jones

Affiliation Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ramesh Ramakrishnan

*E-mail: ramesh.ramakrishnan@fluidigm.com

Affiliation Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

This is work conducted using a platform which has been commercially released by Fluidigm Corp.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR SS RJ. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: RR SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR. Wrote the paper: RR SS.