About the Authors

Jarrod A. Chapman

jchapman@lbl.gov

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Isaac Ho

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Sirisha Sunkara

Affiliation U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Shujun Luo

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

Gary P. Schroth

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Daniel S. Rokhsar

Affiliations U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Gary P. Schroth and Shujun Luo are employees of Illumina and are also shareholders in the company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials related to this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAC DSR GPS. Performed the experiments: JAC IH SL SS. Analyzed the data: JAC IH SL SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GPS JC. Wrote the paper: JAC DSR IH.