About the Authors

Aftab Ahmad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan

Fahad Almsned

Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Systems Biology and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, King Fahad Specialist Hospital– Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Pasha Ghazal

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan

Malik Waqar Ahmed

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan

M. Saleet Jafri

Roles Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Systems Biology and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Habib Bokhari

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

habib@comsats.edu.pk

Affiliations Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest.