About the Authors

Matthew Beauregard Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mbsmith93@utexas.edu (MBS); angela@erisyon.com (AMB); marcotte@utexas.edu (EMM)

Affiliations Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

Kent VanderVelden

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

Thomas Blom

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

Heather D. Stout

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

James H. Mapes

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

Tucker M. Folsom

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

Christopher Martin

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

Angela M. Bardo

Roles Data curation, Supervision

mbsmith93@utexas.edu (MBS); angela@erisyon.com (AMB); marcotte@utexas.edu (EMM)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Erisyon Inc., Austin Texas, United States of America

Edward M. Marcotte

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mbsmith93@utexas.edu (MBS); angela@erisyon.com (AMB); marcotte@utexas.edu (EMM)

Affiliations Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: A.M.B. and E.M.M. are co-founders and shareholders of Erisyon, Inc., and are co-inventors on granted patents or pending patent applications related to single-molecule protein sequencing. A.M.B. serves on the board of directors and E.M.M. serves on the scientific advisory board. M.B.S., K.V., T.B., H.D.S., J.H.M., T.M.F., C.M., and A.M.B. are affiliated with Erisyon, Inc., as employees or shareholders. H.D.S. is currently employed by UT Austin with funding from a Sponsored Research Agreement from Erisyon, Inc.