About the Authors
- Jennifer L. Steele
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Genetics Research LLC, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Richard C. Stevens
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Genetics Research LLC, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Oscar A. Cabrera
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Roles Investigation
Affiliation Genetics Research LLC, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gary J. Bassill
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Roles Investigation, Validation
Affiliation Genetics Research LLC, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sabrina M. Cramer
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Roles Investigation, Validation
Affiliation Genetics Research LLC, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Felipe Guzman
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Roles Data curation, Software
Affiliation Genetics Research LLC, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Anthony P. Shuber
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: APS@gen-res.com
Affiliation Genetics Research LLC, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Genetics Research, LLC, provided support in the form of salaries for authors [JLS, RCS, OAC, GJB, SMC, FG, and APS]. Author APS is listed as an inventor on the following patents owned by Genetics Research, LLC: “Detection of Targeted Sequence Regions” (10081829), “Detection of Targeted Sequence Regions” (10370700), “Isolation of Target Nucleic Acids” (PCT/US18/037294), “Methods and Kits For Quality Control” (PCT/US18/037273), “Tumor Mutation Burden” (PCT/US18/037296), “Methods for Rare Event Detection” (10527608), “Negative-Positive Enrichment For Nucleic Acid Detection” (PCT/US18/037277), “Detection of Targeted Sequence Regions” (PCT/US18/037280), “Regulated Multiplex Reactions in a Single Tube” (PCT/US20/018964), “Selective Enrichment” (62/884498), “Selective Protection Of Nucleic Acids” (PCT/US18/037307), “Tumor Mutation Burden By Quantification of Mutations in Nucleic Acids” (16/007531), “Plasma/Serum Target Enrichment” (PCT/US18/037287), “Bodily Fluid Target Enrichment” (PCT/US18/039518), “Bodily Fluid Enrichment” (16/177784), “Sequence Specific Methylation Enrichment/Detection” (16/150962), “Sequence Specific Methylation Enrichment/Detection” (PCT/US18/054188), “Solid Phase Negative Enrichment” (16/179523), “Targeted Rare Allele CRISPR Enrichment” (62/941181), and “Methods and Systems of DNA Library Preparation for Detecting Fusions” (62/969412). Authors APS and JLS are listed as inventors on the following patent owned by Genetics Research, LLC: “Rare Nucleic Acid Detection” (PCT/US18/037312). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.