About the Authors
- Saadet Albayrak Guralp
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Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Yusuf E. Murgha
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Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Jean-Marie Rouillard
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Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Mycroarray, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Erdogan Gulari
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* E-mail: gulari@umich.edu
Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. J.M. Rouillard and E. Gulari have a financial interest in Mycroarray LLC. E. Gulari is a a founder of Microarray-LLC and J.M. Rouillard is a founder and chief science officer of Microarray-LLC. The oligonucleotide library was obtained from Mycroarray-LLC. Library synthesis and 454 sequencing were performed at Mycroarray (Ann Arbor, MI). There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Implemented emulsion PCR protocol for library amplification: YEM. Conceived and designed the experiments: SAG JMR EG. Performed the experiments: SAG. Analyzed the data: SAG JMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMR YEM. Wrote the paper: SAG JMR EG.