About the Authors

Yulei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yulei Wang, Catalin C. Barbacioru

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Catalin C. Barbacioru

Contributed equally to this work with: Yulei Wang, Catalin C. Barbacioru

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Dov Shiffman

Affiliation Celera, Alameda, California, United States of America

Sriram Balasubramanian

Current address: Pharmacyclics, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Affiliation Celera Genomics, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Olga Iakoubova

Affiliation Celera, Alameda, California, United States of America

Maryann Tranquilli

Affiliation Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Gonzalo Albornoz

Affiliation Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Julie Blake

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Necip N. Mehmet

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Dewi Ngadimo

Current address: Pharmacyclics, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Affiliation Celera Genomics, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Karen Poulter

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Frances Chan

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

Raymond R. Samaha

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Raymond.Samaha@appliedbiosystems.com (RS); john.elefteriades@yale.edu (JE)

Affiliation Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States of America

John A. Elefteriades

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Raymond.Samaha@appliedbiosystems.com (RS); john.elefteriades@yale.edu (JE)

Affiliation Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

YW, CCB, JB, NNM, KP, FC and RRS are employees of Applied Biosystems; DS, SB, DN and OI are employees of Celera.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS YW JE DS SB. Performed the experiments: YW SB JB NM DN KP FC. Analyzed the data: YW CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW JE OI MT GA. Wrote the paper: YW JE SB. Other: Designed the study: JE. Enrolled patients: JE.