About the Authors

Marjan Mehrab-Mohseni

Contributed equally to this work with: Marjan Mehrab-Mohseni, Kathlyne Jayne B. Bautista

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

Affiliations Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Kathlyne Jayne B. Bautista

Contributed equally to this work with: Marjan Mehrab-Mohseni, Kathlyne Jayne B. Bautista

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

Affiliation Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Yusha Liu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Erika E. Maldonado-Rosado

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Haofan Zheng

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Statistics & Operations Research, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Matthew J. Niederhuber

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jonathan D. Rosen

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Genetics, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Michell D. Carroll

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Brian Velasco

Roles Resources

Affiliation Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

James K. Tsuruta

Roles Resources

Affiliation Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jinwook Kim

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Current address: School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

James S. Marron

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Statistics & Operations Research, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Perry D. Haaland

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Statistics & Operations Research, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sandeep K. Kasoji

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Triangle Biotechnology, Inc., Durham, N.C., United States

Piotr A. Mieczkowski

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Genetics, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Austin J. Hepperla

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Neuroscience Center, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Paul A. Dayton

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

padayton@email.unc.edu (PAD), pattenden@unc.edu (SGP)

Affiliations Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Samantha G. Pattenden

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

padayton@email.unc.edu (PAD), pattenden@unc.edu (SGP)

Affiliations Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

P.A.D. and S.G.P. are co-inventors on technology related to nanodroplets and DNA shearing which has been licensed to Triangle Biotechnology, Inc. (United States Patent No. 9,982,290). P.A.D. is co-inventor on technology related to nanodroplets, which has been licensed to Triangle Biotechnology, Inc. (United States Patent No. 9,427,410). P.A.D. and S.G.P. are advisors for, and equity holders in Triangle Biotechnology, Inc., and S.K.K. is an employee of and equity holder in Triangle Biotechnology, Inc. These conflicts do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.