About the Authors

Onur Sakarya

osakarya@yahoo.com (OS); fiona.hyland@lifetech.com (FCH); asim.siddiqui@lifetech.com (ASS)

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Heinz Breu

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Milan Radovich

Affiliation Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Yongzhi Chen

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Yulei N. Wang

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Catalin Barbacioru

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Sowmi Utiramerur

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Penn P. Whitley

Affiliation Life Technologies (Ambion), Austin, Texas, United States of America

Joel P. Brockman

Affiliation Life Technologies (Ambion), Austin, Texas, United States of America

Paolo Vatta

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Zheng Zhang

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Liviu Popescu

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Matthew W. Muller

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Vidya Kudlingar

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Nriti Garg

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Chieh-Yuan Li

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Benjamin S. Kong

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

John P. Bodeau

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Robert C. Nutter

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Jian Gu

Affiliation Life Technologies (Ambion), Austin, Texas, United States of America

Kelli S. Bramlett

Affiliation Life Technologies (Ambion), Austin, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey K. Ichikawa

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Fiona C. Hyland

osakarya@yahoo.com (OS); fiona.hyland@lifetech.com (FCH); asim.siddiqui@lifetech.com (ASS)

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Asim S. Siddiqui

osakarya@yahoo.com (OS); fiona.hyland@lifetech.com (FCH); asim.siddiqui@lifetech.com (ASS)

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Some of the authors are employees of Life Technologies Corporation.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OS PV HBB MR JG KSB FCH ASS. Performed the experiments: OS HBB YC YNW CB SU ZZ LP MWM VK NG C-YL BSK JPB JG. Analyzed the data: OS MR YNW PPW PV FCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YNW JPB RCN KSB JKI FCH ASS. Wrote the paper: OS FCH ASS.