About the Authors

Noor ul Ain Nazir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Muhammad Haroon Shaukat

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation

Affiliation National Agriculture and Research Center (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan

Ray Luo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, the University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Shah Rukh Abbas

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sabbas@asab.nust.edu.pk

Affiliation Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.