About the Authors

Neetika Nath

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Complex and EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

John B. O. Mitchell

jbom@st-andrews.ac.uk

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Complex and EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

Affiliation Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NN JBOM GCA. Performed the experiments: NN. Analyzed the data: NN JBOM GCA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NN JBOM GCA. Wrote the paper: NN JBOM GCA.