About the Authors

Kin Fai Au

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jason G. Underwood

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences of California, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Lawrence Lee

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences of California, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Wing Hung Wong

W.H.W. (whwong@stanford.edu)

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

J.G.U. and L.L. are full-time employees and stock holders of Pacific Biosciences, a company commercializing single-molecule, real-time nucleic acid sequencing technologies.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KFA WHW. Performed the experiments: JGU LL. Analyzed the data: KFA WHW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KFA. Wrote the paper: KFA WHW.