About the Authors
- Queenie Wing-Lei Wong
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Contributed equally to this work with: Queenie Wing-Lei Wong, Candida Vaz
Affiliation Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, 8A Biomedical Grove, Immunos, 138648, Singapore, Singapore
- Candida Vaz
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Contributed equally to this work with: Queenie Wing-Lei Wong, Candida Vaz
Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, 30 Biopolis Street, 138671, Singapore, Singapore
- Qian Yi Lee
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Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, 30 Biopolis Street, 138671, Singapore, Singapore
- Tian Yun Zhao
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, 8A Biomedical Grove, Immunos, 138648, Singapore, Singapore
- Raymond Luo
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Affiliation Life Technologies, 10 Biopolis Road, 138670, Singapore, Singapore
- Stuart K. Archer
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Affiliation Monash Bioinformatics Platform, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Thomas Preiss
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Affiliations EMBL–Australia Collaborating Group, Department of Genome Science, The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), The Australian National University, Acton (Canberra), Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst (Sydney), New South Wales, Australia
- Vivek Tanavde
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Affiliations Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, 8A Biomedical Grove, Immunos, 138648, Singapore, Singapore, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, 30 Biopolis Street, 138671, Singapore, Singapore
- Leah A. Vardy
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* E-mail: leah.vardy@imb.a-star.edu.sg
Affiliations Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, 8A Biomedical Grove, Immunos, 138648, Singapore, Singapore, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, 637551, Singapore, Singapore
Competing Interests
Raymond Luo, a co-author in this study, is employed by Life Technologies, 10 Biopolis Road, Singapore 138670. His involvement in the work and as an author on this paper does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. His role in the work was purely technical (to assist with mapping the reads from the RNA sequencing to the ref seq genome). He was not involved in any experimental design or data interpretation.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LAV. Performed the experiments: QWLW TYZ SKA. Analyzed the data: CV QYL RL VT LAV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP VT LAV. Wrote the paper: LAV CV QWLW.