About the Authors

Sandor E. Karpathy

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandor E. Karpathy, Xiang Qin

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiang Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandor E. Karpathy, Xiang Qin

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jason Gioia

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Huaiyang Jiang

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yamei Liu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph F. Petrosino

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shailaja Yerrapragada

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

George E. Fox

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Susan Kinder Haake

Affiliation Associated Clinical Specialties, University of California at Los Angeles School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

George M. Weinstock

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sarah K. Highlander

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sarahh@bcm.tmc.edu

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QX SK GW SHa SHi XQ. Performed the experiments: SK SHi. Analyzed the data: JP QX SK HJ SY YL JG GF SHa SHi XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QX HJ SY GF GW SHa SHi XQ. Wrote the paper: SK GW SHa SHi.