About the Authors

Timothy D. Read

tread@emory.edu

Affiliations Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rosemary S. Turingan

Affiliation Network Biosystems Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher Cook

Affiliation Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Heidi Giese

Affiliation Network Biosystems Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ulrich Hans Thomann

Affiliation Network Biosystems Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

Catherine C. Hogan

Affiliation Network Biosystems Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eugene Tan

Affiliation Network Biosystems Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard F. Selden

Affiliation Network Biosystems Inc, Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

RST, HG, UHT, CCH, RFS and ET are full-time employees of Network Biosystems Inc, which is developing products based on technologies described in this manuscript. Network Biosystems Inc owns patents and patent applications related to technologies described in this manuscript. The authors affirm their adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials described in this article.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TDR ET RS. Performed the experiments: TDR RST CC HG UT CH. Analyzed the data: TDR RST CC UT RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TDR. Wrote the paper: TDR RST ET RS. Technology development: RST HG UT CH ET RS.