About the Authors

Simant Dube

simant.dube@fluidigm.com

Affiliation Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jian Qin

Affiliation Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ramesh Ramakrishnan

Affiliation Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are employees of Fludigim Corporation and for this research project they used a technology platform which is being commercialized by Fluidigm.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQ RR. Performed the experiments: JQ. Analyzed the data: SD. Wrote the paper: SD JQ RR. Worked out the mathematical analysis and algorithms and conducted simulation experiments: SD.