About the Authors

Kris M. Weigel

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kelly L. Jones

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Julie S. Do

Affiliation AttoDx, Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jody Melton Witt

Affiliation Novartis Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Jae-Hyun Chung

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christian Valcke

Affiliation Novartis Diagnostics, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Gerard A. Cangelosi

gcang@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

JSD is employed by AttoDx, Inc., which helped to fund this work and may gain financially from it. GAC is a part-time consultant to AttoDx. JMW and CV are former employees of Novartis Diagnostics, which helped to fund the work and may gain financially from it. 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: KMW KLJ JSD JMW JHC CV GAC. Performed the experiments: KMW KLJ JSD GAC. Analyzed the data: KMW KLJ JSD JMW JHC CV GAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMW JHC CV GAC. Wrote the paper: KW GAC.