About the Authors

Cuncong Zhong

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Anna Edlund

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Edlund, Youngik Yang

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Youngik Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Edlund, Youngik Yang

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey S. McLean

Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Periodontics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shibu Yooseph

syooseph@jcvi.org

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ SY. Performed the experiments: CZ. Analyzed the data: CZ AE YY SY. Wrote the paper: CZ AE YY JSM SY.