About the Authors

Daniel R. Zerbino

zerbino@ebi.ac.uk

Affiliation European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gayle K. McEwen

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Elliott H. Margulies

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ewan Birney

Affiliation European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

EB has a small number of shares (<$5,000) in Illumina from previous consultancy with Solexa.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRZ EB. Performed the experiments: DRZ. Analyzed the data: DRZ GKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EHM. Wrote the paper: DRZ EB.