About the Authors

Maria Lluch-Senar

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Lluch-Senar, Khai Luong

maria.lluch@crg.es

Affiliations EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Khai Luong

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Lluch-Senar, Khai Luong

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

Verónica Lloréns-Rico

Affiliations EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Javier Delgado

Affiliations EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Gang Fang

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Kristi Spittle

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

Tyson A. Clark

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

Eric Schadt

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Stephen W. Turner

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

Jonas Korlach

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

Luis Serrano

Affiliations EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

KL, TAC, KS, SWT, and JK are full-time employees at PacificBiosciences, a company commercializing single-molecule, real-time nucleic acid sequencing technologies.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML-S LS KL JK. Performed the experiments: ML-S KS TAC. Analyzed the data: KL ML-S VL-R LS GF ES SWT JK JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KL JK ML-S LS. Wrote the paper: ML-S LS KL TAC SWT JK.