About the Authors
- Yasuyuki Tomita
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Affiliations Central Laboratories for Frontier Technology, KIRIN Holdings Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
- Kazuho Ikeo
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Affiliation Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
- Hideyuki Tamakawa
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Affiliation Central Laboratories for Frontier Technology, KIRIN Holdings Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Takashi Gojobori
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Affiliation Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
- Shigehito Ikushima
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* E-mail: Shigehito_Ikushima@kirin.co.jp
Affiliation Central Laboratories for Frontier Technology, KIRIN Holdings Company, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Competing Interests
Tomita and Ikushima are members of Central Laboratories for Frontier Technology, KIRIN Holdings Company, Ltd. and employees in this company. 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: SI. Performed the experiments: YT SI. Analyzed the data: YT HT SI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KI TG. Wrote the paper: YT TG SI.