About the Authors

Asif M. Khan

AMK and TWT are joint first authors of this work.

Affiliations Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Tin Wee Tan

tinwee@bic.nus.edu.sg (TWT); shoba.ranganathan@mq.edu.au (SR)

AMK and TWT are joint first authors of this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Christian Schönbach

Affiliations School of Science and Technology, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics R&D Center (BMIRC), Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

Shoba Ranganathan

tinwee@bic.nus.edu.sg (TWT); shoba.ranganathan@mq.edu.au (SR)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

AMK and TWT are Nominee Directors of Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network, Ltd.; SR, CS, and AMK are President, Vice President (Conferences), and Treasurer of APBioNet, respectively. TWT is a board director of ISCB and former president and current advisor of AMBIS.