Ements14S4 Author details 1 Division of Personal computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, R.O.C. 2Center of Excellence for Marine Bioenvironment and Biotechnology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, R.O.C. 3Graduate Institute of Molecular Systems Biomedicine, China Health-related University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. 4China Healthcare University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.Table 3 Average functionality in the CE-KEG for energy function of single residue.Weighting Combinations 0 EG+100 GAAP 10 EG + 90 GAAP 20 EG + 80 GAAP 30 EG + 70 GAAP 40 EG + 60 GAAP 50 EG + 50 GAAP 60 EG + 40 GAAP 70 EG + 30 GAAP 80 EG + 20 GAAP 90 EG + 10 GAAP 100 EG + 0 GAAP SE 0.478 0.463 0.473 0.476 0.483 0.466 0.476 0.485 0.480 0.481 0.463 SP 0.831 0.827 0.827 0.828 0.832 0.831 0.833 0.832 0.830 0.831 0.830 PPV 0.266 0.260 0.265 0.268 0.275 0.273 0.280 0.281 0.278 0.275 0.265 ACC 0.796 0.790 0.791 0.792 0.796 0.795 0.797 0.797 0.796 0.797 0.The Hematoporphyrin dihydrochloride performance used combinations of weighting coefficients for the power (EG) of person residues and the frequency of occurrence for geometrically associated pairs (GAAP). The highest SE is denoted by a bold-italic face.Lo et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14(Suppl four):S3 http:www.biomedcentral.com1471-210514S4SPage 10 ofPublished: eight March 2013 References 1. Yang X, Yu X: An introduction to epitope prediction methods and application. Rev Med Virol 2009, 19(two):77-96. 2. Greenspan NS, Di Cera E: Defining epitopes: It’s not as easy since it seems. Nat Biotechnol 1999, 17(10):936-937. three. Kam YW, Lee WW, Simarmata D, Harjanto S, Teng TS, Tolou H, Chow A, Lin RT, Leo YS, Renia L, et al: Longitudinal analysis on the human antibody response to chikungunya virus infection: implications for sero-diagnosis assays and BRD6989 manufacturer vaccine improvement. J Virol 2012. four. Siman-Tov DD, Zemel R, Kaspa RT, Gershoni JM: The usage of epitope arrays in immuno-diagnosis of infectious illness: HCV a case study. Anal Biochem 2012. 5. Greenbaum JA, Andersen PH, Blythe M, Bui HH, Cachau RE, Crowe J, Davies M, Kolaskar AS, Lund O, Morrison S, et al: Towards a consensus on datasets and evaluation metrics for building B-cell epitope prediction tools. J Mol Recognit 2007, 20(two):75-82. six. Huber R: Structural basis for antigen-antibody recognition. Science 1986, 233(4765):702-703. 7. Van Regenmortel MH: Antigenicity and immunogenicity of synthetic peptides. Biologicals 2001, 29(3-4):209-213. 8. Odorico M, Pellequer JL: BEPITOPE: predicting the place of continuous epitopes and patterns in proteins. J Mol Recognit 2003, 16(1):20-22. 9. Saha S, Raghava GPS: BcePred: Prediction of continuous B-cell epitopes in antigenic sequences employing physical-chemical properties. LNCS 2004, 3239:197-204. ten. Larsen JE, Lund O, Nielsen M: Improved strategy for predicting linear B-cell epitopes. Immunome Res 2006, two:two. 11. Saha S, Raghava GP: Prediction of continuous B-cell epitopes in an antigen employing recurrent neural network. Proteins 2006, 65(1):40-48. 12. Chang HT, Liu CH, Pai TW: Estimation and extraction of B-cell linear epitopes predicted by mathematical morphology approaches. J Mol Recognit 2008, 21(6):431-441. 13. Wang HW, Lin YC, Pai TW, Chang HT: Prediction of B-cell linear epitopes having a combination of assistance vector machine classification and amino acid propensity identification. J Biomed Biotechnol 2011, 2011:432830. 14. El-Manzalawy Y, Dobbs D, Honavar V: Predicting linear B-cell epitopes making use of string kernels. J Mol Recogni.