About the Authors

Jayavel Sridhar

Affiliations Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Suryanarayanan Ramkumar Narmada

Affiliation Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Radhakrishnan Sabarinathan

Affiliation Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Hong-Yu Ou

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Zixin Deng

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Kanagaraj Sekar

Affiliation Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Ziauddin Ahamed Rafi

† Deceased.

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India

Kumar Rajakumar

kr46@le.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS KR. Performed the experiments: JS ZAR. Analyzed the data: JS SRN RS HYO ZD KS ZAR KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS ZAR KR. Wrote the paper: JS KR.