About the Authors

Holly H. Ganz

holly.h.ganz@gmail.com

Current address: Genome Center and Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Christina Law

Affiliation University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Martina Schmuki

Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Fritz Eichenseher

Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Richard Calendar

Affiliation University of California, Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Martin J. Loessner

Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Wayne M. Getz

Affiliations University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Berkeley, California, United States of America, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Jonas Korlach

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

Wolfgang Beyer

Affiliation University of Hohenheim, Institute of Environmental and Animal Hygiene, Stuttgart, Germany

Jochen Klumpp

Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Jonas Korlach is employed by Pacific Biosciences. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HHG CL MS FE MJL WMG RC J. Korlach WB J. Klumpp. Performed the experiments: HHG CL MS FE RC J. Klumpp. Analyzed the data: HHG CL FE RC J. Korlach J. Klumpp. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HHG CL MS FE MJL WMG RC J. Korlach WB J. Klumpp. Wrote the paper: HHG CL MS FE MJL WMG RC J. Korlach WB J. Klumpp.