About the Authors

Sean P. Gordon

Contributed equally to this work with: Sean P. Gordon, Elizabeth Tseng

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

Elizabeth Tseng

Contributed equally to this work with: Sean P. Gordon, Elizabeth Tseng

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

Asaf Salamov

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

Jiwei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Xiandong Meng

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

Zhiying Zhao

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

Dongwan Kang

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

Jason Underwood

Current Address: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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

Igor V. Grigoriev

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

Melania Figueroa

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Jonathan S. Schilling

Affiliation Department of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Feng Chen

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

Zhong Wang

zhongwang@lbl.gov

Affiliations Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, School of Natural Sciences, University of California at Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-authors ET and JU are employed by Pacific Bioscience. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW FC. Performed the experiments: ZZ JU. Analyzed the data: SPG ET AS JZ DK XM. Wrote the paper: SPG ET IVG MF JSS ZW. Designed the software: ET.