About the Authors

Lisa Zeigler Allen

Affiliations Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thomas Ishoey

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Mark A. Novotny

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jeffrey S. McLean

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Roger S. Lasken

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Shannon J. Williamson

swilliamson@jcvi.org

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Patent application number 12/543,046 titled "Amplification of Single Viral Genomes". 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: LZA TI SJW RSL. Performed the experiments: LZA MAN JSM. Analyzed the data: LZA JSM SJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJW RSL JSM. Wrote the paper: LZA SJW MAN JSM RSL.