About the Authors

Kristina Roskos

Affiliation Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California, United States of America

Anna I. Hickerson

Affiliation Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California, United States of America

Hsiang-Wei Lu

Affiliation Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California, United States of America

Tanya M. Ferguson

Affiliation Claremont BioSolutions, Upland, California, United States of America

Deepali N. Shinde

Affiliation Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California, United States of America

Yvonne Klaue

Affiliation Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California, United States of America

Angelika Niemz

aniemz@kgi.edu

Affiliation Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Keck Graduate Institute has filed a provisional patent application (System and Cartridge for Efficient Nucleic Acid Testing, Application No. 13/860,453; Filed April 10, 2013), covering the general design for this cartridge. TMF is an employee of Claremont BioSolutions. 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.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KR AIH HWL TMF DNS YK AN. Performed the experiments: KR AIH HWL TMF DNS YK. Analyzed the data: KR AIH HWL TMF DNS YK AN. Wrote the paper: KR AIH HWL TMF DNS AN.