About the Authors

Piotr Chomczynski

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

piotr@mrcgene.com

Affiliation Molecular Research Center, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Peter W. Chomczynski

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

Affiliation Molecular Research Center, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Amy Kennedy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Molecular Research Center, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Michal Rymaszewski

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Molecular Research Center, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

William W. Wilfinger

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Molecular Research Center, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Judith A. Heiny

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Systems Physiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Karol Mackey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Research Center, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

Author PCh is owner and president of MRC. Authors PCh, PWC, AK, MR, WWW, and KM are employees of MRC. This affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Piotr Chomczynski is owner of a pending patent on the method reported (US63/117,776); this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.