About the Authors

Michael S. Akhras

Affiliations Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Magnus Unemo

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

Sreedevi Thiyagarajan

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Pål Nyrén

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Ronald W. Davis

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Andrew Z. Fire

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Nader Pourmand

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pourmand@stanford.edu

Affiliations Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF NP MA. Performed the experiments: MA. Analyzed the data: NP MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP MA MU ST. Wrote the paper: AF NP MA. Other: Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center: RW. Academic supervisor of Michael S. Akhras: PN.