About the Authors

Megan Morse

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Elizabeth Tran

Affiliation Biochemical Technologies, Science and Technology Division, Corning Inc., Corning, New York, United States of America

Haiyan Sun

Affiliation Biochemical Technologies, Science and Technology Division, Corning Inc., Corning, New York, United States of America

Robert Levenson

rlevenson@hmc.psu.edu (RL); fangy2@corning.com (YF)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ye Fang

rlevenson@hmc.psu.edu (RL); fangy2@corning.com (YF)

Affiliation Biochemical Technologies, Science and Technology Division, Corning Inc., Corning, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

ET, HS and YF are employees and shareholders of Corning Inc. MM and RL received sponsored research funding from Corning Inc. Epic system is a marketed product. DMR assays are patent pending. There are no other patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. 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: YF MM RL. Performed the experiments: MM ET SH. Analyzed the data: MM YF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM ET HS YF RL. Wrote the paper: MM RL YF. Designed the software used in analysis: YF. Edited the paper: ET.