About the Authors

Gaurab Sircar

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Main campus), 93/1 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata– 700009, West Bengal, India

Bodhisattwa Saha

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Main campus), 93/1 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata– 700009, West Bengal, India

Rahul Shubhra Mandal

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics Center, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata-700010, West Bengal, India

Naren Pandey

Affiliation Department of Allergy and Asthma, Belle Vue Clinic, 9, Dr. U. N. Brahmachari Street, Kolkata—700001, West Bengal, India

Sudipto Saha

Affiliation Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute (Centenary Building), P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme–VIIM, Kolkata– 700054, West Bengal, India

Swati Gupta Bhattacharya

swati@jcbose.ac.in; swatigb2929@yahoo.com

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Main campus), 93/1 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata– 700009, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS SGB. Performed the experiments: GS BS RSM NP SS. Analyzed the data: GS RSM SS SGB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGB NP. Wrote the paper: GS BS RSM NP SS SGB.