About the Authors

Ruma Banerjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruma Banerjee, Pankaj Vats, Sonal Dahale

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pankaj Vats

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruma Banerjee, Pankaj Vats, Sonal Dahale

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Sonal Dahale

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruma Banerjee, Pankaj Vats, Sonal Dahale

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Sunitha Manjari Kasibhatla

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Rajendra Joshi

rajendra@cdac.in

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJ SMK. Performed the experiments: RB PV SD. Analyzed the data: RB PV SD SMK. Wrote the paper: RB PV SD SMK. Comparative genomics: RB. Phylogenetic profiling: PV. Metabolic pathway reconstruction: SD.