About the Authors

Fuchou Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fuchou Tang, Catalin Barbacioru

Affiliations Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Catalin Barbacioru

Contributed equally to this work with: Fuchou Tang, Catalin Barbacioru

Affiliation Genetic Systems, Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Ellen Nordman

Affiliation Genetic Systems, Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Siqin Bao

Affiliation Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Caroline Lee

Affiliation Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Xiaohui Wang

Affiliation Genetic Systems, Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Brian B. Tuch

Affiliation Genetic Systems, Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Edith Heard

Affiliation CNRS UMR3215, INSERM U934, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Kaiqin Lao

a.surani@gurdon.cam.ac.uk (MAS); kaiqinlao@gmail.com (KL)

Affiliation Genetic Systems, Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

M. Azim Surani

a.surani@gurdon.cam.ac.uk (MAS); kaiqinlao@gmail.com (KL)

Affiliation Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

KL, CB, EN, XW, BT are employees of Life Technologies Corporation.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KL MAS FT. Analyzed the data: KL MAS EH FT CB. Wrote the paper: KL MAS EH FT. Sample preparation and sequencing: FT EN SB CL. Bioinformatics analysis: CB KL XW BBT.