About the Authors

Ze Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ze Peng, Zhiying Zhao

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Zhiying Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ze Peng, Zhiying Zhao

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Nandita Nath

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Jeff L. Froula

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alicia Clum

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Tao Zhang

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Jan-fang Cheng

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alex C. Copeland

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Len A. Pennacchio

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Feng Chen

fchen@lbl.gov

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZP ZZ TZ JFC FC. Performed the experiments: ZP ZZ NN. Analyzed the data: ZP ZZ NN JLF AC JFC ACC LAP FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZP ZZ NN JLF AC. Wrote the paper: ZP ZZ JLF TZ FC. Supervised the whole project: FC.