About the Authors

Ayesha Bibi

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

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Hamza Afandi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Azra Mehmood

Roles Resources

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Usman Ali Ashfaq

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Shareef Masoud

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Mohsin Ahmad Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rashid.bhatti@cemb.edu.pk (RB); mohsin@cemb.edu.pk (MAK)

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Rashid Bhatti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

rashid.bhatti@cemb.edu.pk (RB); mohsin@cemb.edu.pk (MAK)

Affiliation Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.