About the Authors

Brian P. Anton

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anton@neb.com

Affiliation Research Department, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexey Fomenkov

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Department, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America

Victoria Wu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Research Department, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard J. Roberts

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

Affiliation Research Department, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, 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: BPA, AF, and RJR work for New England Biolabs, which manufactures and sells restriction endonucleases, sequencing library prep kits, and other reagents mentioned in this work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.