About the Authors
- Alex R. Hastie
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Affiliation BioNano Genomics, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Lingli Dong
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Affiliations Genomics and Gene Discovery Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Alexis Smith
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Affiliation BioNano Genomics, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Jeff Finklestein
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Affiliation BioNano Genomics, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Ernest T. Lam
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Affiliation BioNano Genomics, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Naxin Huo
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Affiliations Genomics and Gene Discovery Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Han Cao
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Affiliation BioNano Genomics, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Pui-Yan Kwok
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Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Karin R. Deal
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Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Jan Dvorak
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Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Ming-Cheng Luo
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Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Yong Gu
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* E-mail: ming.xiao@drexel.edu (MX); yong.gu@ars.usda.gov (YG)
Affiliations Genomics and Gene Discovery Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Ming Xiao
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* E-mail: ming.xiao@drexel.edu (MX); yong.gu@ars.usda.gov (YG)
Current address: Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Affiliation BioNano Genomics, San Diego, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. Alex R Hastie, Alexis Smith, Jeff Finklestein, Ernest Lam, Han Cao and Ming Xiao were employees of BioNano Genomics at the time of the study, and they own company stock options. Alex R Hastie, Han Cao, and Ming Xiao are inventors of several patents owned by BioNano Genomics. The authors have a patent application with inventors Ming Xiao and Alex R Hastie (application number 13/606,819) relating to this work, “PHYSICAL MAP CONSTRUCTION OF WHOLE GENOME AND POOLED CLONE MAPPING IN NANOCHANNEL ARRAY. The technology platform (BioNano Genomics IrysTM) described in this paper was developed by BioNano Genomics. There are no further 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AH HC MCL YG MX. Performed the experiments: AH LD AS JF NH KRD. Analyzed the data: AH LD JD MCL YG MX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ETL PYK. Wrote the paper: AH LD ETL KRD JD HC MCL YG MX.