About the Authors

Rene H. Quintanilla Jr

Contributed equally to this work with: Rene H. Quintanilla Jr, Joanna S. T. Asprer

Affiliation Cell Biology & Stem Cell Sciences, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Joanna S. T. Asprer

Contributed equally to this work with: Rene H. Quintanilla Jr, Joanna S. T. Asprer

Affiliation Cell Biology & Stem Cell Sciences, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Candida Vaz

Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*Star), Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Vivek Tanavde

Affiliations Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*Star), Singapore, Republic of Singapore, Institute for Medical Biology, Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*Star), Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Uma Lakshmipathy

uma.lakshmipathy@lifetech.com

Affiliation Cell Biology & Stem Cell Sciences, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Please note that authors RHQ, JSTA and UL are employed by Life Technologies and receive financial compensation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UL RHQ JSTA. Performed the experiments: RHQ JSTA. Analyzed the data: UL CV VT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UL. Wrote the paper: UL JSTA.