About the Authors

Dewal Jani

Contributed equally to this work with: Dewal Jani, Rana Nagarkatti

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Rana Nagarkatti

Contributed equally to this work with: Dewal Jani, Rana Nagarkatti

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Wandy Beatty

Affiliation Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ross Angel

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Carla Slebodnick

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

John Andersen

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Sanjai Kumar

Affiliation Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dharmendar Rathore

Rathore@vbi.vt.edu

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dharmendar Rathore, Rana Nagarkatti, and Dewal Jani are named as inventors on a pending patent application relevant to this work.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJ RN DR. Performed the experiments: DJ RN WB CS JA DR. Analyzed the data: DJ RN WB RA CS JA DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA SK. Wrote the paper: DJ RN SK DR.