About the Authors

Lisa F. P Ng

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Marieta Chan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Soh-Ha Chan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Paul Chung-Pui Cheng

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Eastwood Hon-Chiu Leung

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Wei-Ning Chen

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Ee-Chee Ren

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: renec@gis.a-star.edu.sg

Affiliations Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

LFPN, MC, SHC, WNC, and ECR designed the study. LFPN, MC, PCPC, EHCL, and WNC performed the experiments. LFPN, MC, and ECR contributed to writing the paper.