About the Authors

Zachary Roelen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Vincent Tabard-Cossa

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

tcossa@uottawa.ca

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: V.T.-C. is CSO of Northern Nanopore Instruments Inc., a for-profit company that provides solid-state nanopore tools and software, including the Nanolyzer software used here. Z.R. declares no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.