About the Authors

Jun Seita

jseita@stanford.edu (JS); irv@stanford.edu (ILW)

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Debashis Sahoo

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Derrick J. Rossi

Current address: Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Deepta Bhattacharya

Current address: Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Thomas Serwold

Current address: Department of Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Matthew A. Inlay

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lauren I. R. Ehrlich

Current address: Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

John W. Fathman

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

David L. Dill

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Irving L. Weissman

jseita@stanford.edu (JS); irv@stanford.edu (ILW)

Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

ILW, DLD, DS, and JS are named as inventors on a patent application for the Digital Pattern Profiling of Gene Expression filed April 16, 2012. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS DS. Performed the experiments: JS DS. Analyzed the data: JS DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJR DB TS MAI LIRE JWF. Wrote the paper: JS DS DLD ILW.