About the Authors
- Sandeep K. Kasoji
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sandeep K. Kasoji, Samantha G. Pattenden
Affiliation Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
- Samantha G. Pattenden
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sandeep K. Kasoji, Samantha G. Pattenden
Affiliation Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Ewa P. Malc
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, High Throughput Sequencing Facility, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Chatura N. Jayakody
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Affiliation Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- James K. Tsuruta
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Affiliations Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Piotr A. Mieczkowski
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, High Throughput Sequencing Facility, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- William P. Janzen
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Current address: Epizyme Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Affiliation Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Paul A. Dayton
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* E-mail: padayton@email.unc.edu
Affiliation Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
Inventorship on a pending patent application involving technology described in this manuscript, and research grant funding was provided by the NIH. Several of the co-authors of this article have applied for a patent, “Methods and systems for using encapsulated microbubbles to process biological samples,” PCT/US2013/063397, although this patent has not been issued yet, nor is it licensed. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SKK SGP WPJ PAD. Performed the experiments: SKK SGP EPM JKT CNJ. Analyzed the data: SKK SGP EPM CNJ PAM WPJ PAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKT. Wrote the paper: SKK SGP EPM CNJ JKT PAM WPJ PAD.