ATTRIBUTIONS

1. We distributed work in terms of Dry Lab and Wet Lab work. We performed all the experiments on our own.
2. We would like to thank Dr.Kwang-Hwan "Kevin" Jung, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Life Science and Institute of Biological Interfaces, Sogang University, Korea for sending us the plasmid (pKJ900) with proteorhodopsin gene.
3. "A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction for Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 that accounts for 1260 ORFs and thermodynamic information" Adam M Feist et. al.
4. We would like to thank Prof. Karthik Raman of IIT Madras who helped our team in effecient modelling of our Project
5. We are grateful to Dr. Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Adjunct Professor, IIT Madras, for his constant financial support and encouragement.