About the Authors

Jason M. Casolari

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Michael A. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Julia Salzman

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lowry M. Champion

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

W. E. Moerner

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Patrick O. Brown

pbrown@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMC MAT WEM POB. Performed the experiments: JMC MAT LMC. Analyzed the data: JMC MAT POB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMC MAT JS POB. Wrote the paper: JMC MAT WEM POB.