About the Authors

Shyamasree De Majumdar

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Atul Vashist

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Sakshi Dhingra

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Rajesh Gupta

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Alka Singh

Current address: Centre of Agricultural Bioinformatics (CABin), Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Vijay K. Challu

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore, India

V. D. Ramanathan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, India

Prahlad Kumar

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore, India

Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi

jstyagi@aiims.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JST SDM VKC VDR PK. Performed the experiments: SDM RKG AV AS SD VKC VDR PK. Wrote the paper: JST SDM.