About the Authors

Andrew C. Payne

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew C. Payne, Michael Andregg

Affiliations Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Michael Andregg

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew C. Payne, Michael Andregg

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Kent Kemmish

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Mark Hamalainen

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Charlotte Bowell

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Andrew Bleloch

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Nathan Klejwa

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Wolfgang Lehrach

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Ken Schatz

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Heather Stark

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Adam Marblestone

Affiliation Biophysics Program and Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

George Church

gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu (GC); csown@voxa.co (CO)

Affiliations Biophysics Program and Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher S. Own

gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu (GC); csown@voxa.co (CO)

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

William Andregg

Affiliation Halcyon Molecular, Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Two US patents has been filed on related work by authors of this manuscript: Sequencing Nucleic Acid Polymers with Electron Microscopy, inventors: William Andregg, Michael Andregg, US patent no. 8,153,438; Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, inventors: Christopher Su-Yan Own, William Andregg, Michael Andregg, Application number: 13/303,121 (pending publication), Filing date: 11/22/2011. Several of the authors are employed by Halcyon Molecular Inc. 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: AP MA KK MH AB KS AM GMC CSO WA. Performed the experiments: AP MA KK CB HS CSO. Analyzed the data: AP MH WL CSO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP NK WL KS HS GMC CSO. Wrote the paper: AP AM CSO. Supervised the experiments: GMC AM CSO. Obtained funding: GMC CSO WA MA KK.