About the Authors

Irem Unlu

Contributed equally to this work with: Irem Unlu, Marina K. Smiley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department - RNA, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marina K. Smiley

Contributed equally to this work with: Irem Unlu, Marina K. Smiley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department - RNA, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vladimir Potapov

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department - RNA, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yoan Renoux-Martin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Research Department - RNA, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America, École Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Zhi-Yi Sun

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department - RNA, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hoong Chuin Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hlim@neb.com

Affiliation Research Department - RNA, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. When performing this research and drafting this manuscript, IU, MKS, VP, YR, ZS and HCL were employed by New England Biolabs, a supplier of life sciences reagents, including some used in this study. HCL additionally held equity in Manifold Biotechnologies (unrelated to this work). This employment and equity holding do not, however, alter the authors’ commitment to the highest scientific standards and all PLoS ONE policies on data and material sharing.