About the Authors

Christina A. Bormann Chung

Christina.Chung@lifetech.com

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Victoria L. Boyd

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Kevin J. McKernan

Affiliation Life Technologies, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yutao Fu

Affiliation Life Technologies, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cinna Monighetti

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Heather E. Peckham

Affiliation Life Technologies, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

Melissa Barker

Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are employees of Life Technologies, in which some authors may have equity and/or stock options. Life Technologies manufactures and sells the SOLiD system and reagents used to perform the global sequencing analysis provided in this manuscript. Life Technology provided the instrumentation, reagents, software and salaries to the scientists who conducted the studies. The authors' affiliation to Life Technologies does not interfer with adherence to PLos One policies on sharing data and all the materials used are commercially available. The decision to publish was a volunteer activity on the part of the authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VLB KJM MAB. Performed the experiments: CABC VLB CKM. Analyzed the data: CABC YLF HP. Wrote the paper: CABC.