About the Authors

Michael S. Akhras

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Erik Pettersson

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Lisa Diamond

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Magnus Unemo

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

Jennifer Okamoto

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ronald W. Davis

Affiliation Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Nader Pourmand

pourmand@soe.ucsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSA EP NP. Performed the experiments: MSA EP JO. Analyzed the data: MSA EP MU RWD NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSA EP LD RWD NP. Wrote the manuscript: MSA EP NP. Wrote Sphix: EP.