About the Authors

Takeshi Hanami

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

thanami@riken.jp (TH); te_tanabe@ot.olympus.co.jp (TT)

Affiliations Genetic Diagnosis Technology Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Tetsuya Tanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

thanami@riken.jp (TH); te_tanabe@ot.olympus.co.jp (TT)

Affiliations Genetic Diagnosis Technology Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Advanced Analysis Technology Dept., Medical Technology R&D Division, Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Takuya Hanashi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Genetic Diagnosis Technology Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Advanced Analysis Technology Dept., Medical Technology R&D Division, Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsushiro Yamaguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Genetic Diagnosis Technology Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Advanced Analysis Technology Dept., Medical Technology R&D Division, Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Hidetaka Nakata

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Advanced Analysis Technology Dept., Medical Technology R&D Division, Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Yasumasa Mitani

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation K.K. DNAFORM, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yasumasa Kimura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation

Affiliation K.K. DNAFORM, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Takahiro Soma

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genetic Diagnosis Technology Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Kengo Usui

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genetic Diagnosis Technology Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Michiko Isobe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Takashi Ogawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation

Affiliation RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Masayoshi Itoh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Genetic Diagnosis Technology Unit, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan, RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RIKEN Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Seiji Kondo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations RIKEN Innovation Center, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Advanced Analysis Technology Dept., Medical Technology R&D Division, Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Authors TT, T. Hanashi, MY, HN, and SK are paid employees of Olympus Corporation. Authors YM and YK are paid employees of K.K. DNAFORM, a company holding commercial rights to Eprobe technology. T. Hanami and TS are inventors of Japanese patent applications [JP2012-091400] and [JP2012-158229]. YK is an inventor of Japanese patent application [JP2012-158229]. YH is an inventor of patents [JP2009-171935], [US8067162], [JP2012-091400], [JP2012-158229]. TT, MY and SK are patent inventors for SSMC device [US8710413/JP 5250152]. TT, T. Hanashi, HN are patent inventors for SSMC assay [US9395357 /JP5877155]. The other authors declare no further patents, products in development, or marketed products. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.