About the Authors

Phillip J. Brumm

pbrumm@c56technologies.com

Affiliation C5-6 Technologies LLC, Fitchburg, Wisconsin, United States of America

Scott Monsma

Affiliation Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Brendan Keough

Affiliation Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Svetlana Jasinovica

Affiliation Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Erin Ferguson

Affiliation Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Thomas Schoenfeld

Affiliation Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michael Lodes

Affiliation Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

David A. Mead

Affiliation Lucigen Corporation, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors SM, BK, SJ, EF, TS, ML & DM were employees of Lucigen at the time of the study and own stock or stock options in Lucigen. PB was an employee of C5-6 Technologies, Inc at the time of the study and owned stock and stock options in the company. C5-6 Technologies, Inc was dissolved in December 2014 by the board of directors and no longer exists. No patents or products were developed from this work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAM PJB SM BK TS. Performed the experiments: PJB SM BK SJ EF ML. Analyzed the data: PJB SM BK DAM. Wrote the paper: PJB SM DAM BK.