About the Authors

Radha Duttagupta

Affiliation Applied Research, Affymetrix Inc, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Rong Jiang

Affiliation Applied Research, Affymetrix Inc, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Jeremy Gollub

Affiliation Applied Research, Affymetrix Inc, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Robert C. Getts

Affiliation Research and Development, Genisphere LLC, Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Keith W. Jones

Keith_Jones@affymetrix.com

Affiliation Applied Research, Affymetrix Inc, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: the authors RD, RJ, JG and KWJ are employees of Affymetrix. Inc. RCG is an employee of Genisphere, LLC. 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: RD KWJ. Performed the experiments: RD. Analyzed the data: RJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG RCG. Wrote the paper: RD. Intellectual guidance: KJ RCG. Technical guidance on data analysis: JG.