About the Authors

Shaoli Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoli Das, Suman Ghosal

Affiliation Computational Biology Group, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Suman Ghosal

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaoli Das, Suman Ghosal

Affiliation Computational Biology Group, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Rituparno Sen

Affiliation Gyanxet, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Jayprokas Chakrabarti

j.chakrabarti@gyanxet.com

Affiliations Computational Biology Group, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Gyanxet, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

Rituparno Sen is an employee of Gyanxet, which hosts the database lnCeDB, together with several freely downloadable software. 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. The database is freely accessible from http://gyanxet-beta.com/lncedb [8].

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD SG JC. Analyzed the data: SD SG. Wrote the paper: SD SG JC. Implemented the programs necessary for performing the study: SD RS. Supervised the whole work: JC.