About the Authors

Sean Thomas

sean.thomas@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Affiliations The Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jason G. Underwood

Affiliations University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Tseng

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Alisha K. Holloway

Affiliations The Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

on behalf of the Bench To Basinet CvDC Informatics Subcommittee

Competing Interests

J. Underwood formerly worked for, and E. Tseng currently works for Pacific Biosciences, which has financial interests in long-read sequencing technology. There are no 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: ST AH. Performed the experiments: ST JU. Analyzed the data: ST ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST JU ET. Wrote the paper: ST.