About the Authors

P. V. Parvati Sai Arun

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Ranjith Kumar Bakku

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Mranu Subhashini

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Pankaj Singh

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

N. Prakash Prabhu

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Iwane Suzuki

Affiliation Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Jogadhenu S. S. Prakash

syamsunderp@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: For this study the CyanoPhyChe database was developed. One can browse through it for physico-chemical properties, structure and biochemical pathway information of cyanobacterial proteins. It can be accessed from a local web server located in Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility at School of life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India using the following URL: http://bif.uohyd.ac.in/cpc. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NPP JSSP. Performed the experiments: PVPSA RKB PS MS. Analyzed the data: NPP IS JSSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKB. Wrote the paper: RKB NPP JSSP.