About the Authors

Steve Thomas Pannakal

spannakal@rd.loreal.com (STP); nmisra@rd.loreal.com (NM)

Affiliation L’Oreal Research & Innovation, Bangalore, India

Sibylle Jäger

Affiliation L'Oréal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Albert Duranton

Affiliation L'Oréal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Amit Tewari

Affiliation L’Oreal Research & Innovation, Bangalore, India

Subarna Saha

Affiliation L’Oreal Research & Innovation, Bangalore, India

Aneesha Radhakrishnan

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, International Tech Park, Bangalore, India

Nita Roy

Affiliation L’Oreal Research & Innovation, Bangalore, India

Jean François Kuntz

Affiliation L'Oréal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Soraya Fermas

Affiliation L'Oréal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Darryl James

Affiliation L’Oreal Research & Innovation, Bangalore, India

Jane Mellor

Affiliations Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Sibelius Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom

Namita Misra

spannakal@rd.loreal.com (STP); nmisra@rd.loreal.com (NM)

Affiliation L’Oreal Research & Innovation, Bangalore, India

Lionel Breton

Affiliation L'Oréal Research and Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: S.T.P, S.J, A.D, S.S, N.R, A.T, J.F.K, S.F, D.J, N.M and L.B. are employees of L’Oreal. J.M. is Prof. at University of Oxford and is at the advisory board of Sibelius Limited. AR is scientist at the Institute of Bioinformatics, India. The authors’ declared financial competing interests do not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: STP AD SJ NM LB. Data curation: STP SS JM SF SJ NM. Formal analysis: SF DJ JM. Funding acquisition: LB NR. Investigation: JM SS SF AT. Methodology: STP NM SS JFK JM AR. Project administration: STP NM. Resources: LB NR. Software: JM SS. Supervision: LB NR JM. Validation: NM SJ STP. Visualization: STP NM. Writing – original draft: STP SJ SS NM. Writing – review & editing: JM LB NM STP SJ.