About the Authors

Maria Ximena Sosa

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Ximena Sosa, I. K. Ashok Sivakumar

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

I. K. Ashok Sivakumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Ximena Sosa, I. K. Ashok Sivakumar

Affiliations McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Samantha Maragh

Affiliations McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Vamsi Veeramachaneni

Affiliation Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore, India

Ramesh Hariharan

Affiliation Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore, India

Minothi Parulekar

Affiliation Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore, India

Karin M. Fredrikson

Affiliation Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Timothy T. Harkins

Affiliations Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Life Technologies, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey Lin

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew B. Feldman

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Pramila Tata

Affiliation Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore, India

Georg B. Ehret

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Aravinda Chakravarti

aravinda@jhmi.edu

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

SM: I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflict: Certain commercial equipment or materials are identified in this report to specify adequately the experimental procedures. Such identification does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor does it imply that the materials or equipment identified are necessarily the best available for the purpose.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MXS IKAS TTH GBE AC. Performed the experiments: MXS. Analyzed the data: MXS IKAS SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VV RH MP KMF TTH JL ABF PT AC. Wrote the paper: MXS IKAS AC. Contributed equally to this work: MXS IKAS Designed the software used in analysis: IKAS VV ABF.