About the Authors

Jason D. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gosuke Shibahara

Affiliation Boreal Genomics Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sweta Rajan

Affiliation Boreal Genomics Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Joel Pel

Affiliation Boreal Genomics Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Andre Marziali

andre@phas.ubc.ca

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Boreal Genomics Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have the following competing interest: Jason D. Thompson and Andre Marziali are inventors on, and entitled to royalties arising from, a patent application on methods described in this manuscript. Jason D. Thompson and Andre Marziali own shares in Boreal Genomics, a company holding an exclusive license to the technology described in this manuscript, and currently developing a product based on the methods described in this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM JDT JP. Performed the experiments: JDT GS SR. Analyzed the data: JDT GS SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDT GS SR. Wrote the paper: AM JDT GS SR.