About the Authors

Melissa M. Harrison

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa M. Harrison, Xiao-Yong Li, Tommy Kaplan

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Xiao-Yong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa M. Harrison, Xiao-Yong Li, Tommy Kaplan

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Tommy Kaplan

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa M. Harrison, Xiao-Yong Li, Tommy Kaplan

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael R. Botchan

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael B. Eisen

mbeisen@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

MBE is co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of PLoS.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMH X-YL MRB MBE. Performed the experiments: MMH XY-L. Analyzed the data: TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMH TK. Wrote the paper: MMH MBE.