About the Authors

Haibei Hu
Huayun Deng
Ye Fang

fangy2@corning.com

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

Competing Interests

HH, HD, and YF are employees and shareholders of Corning Inc. Epic system is a marketed product. DMR assay is patent pending. There are no other patents, product 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 HH HD. Performed the experiments: HH DH. Analyzed the data: HH HD YF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YF. Wrote the paper: YF.