Table 3 Bioinformatics tools and methods integrated into the Predector pipeline.

From: An automated and combinative method for the predictive ranking of candidate effector proteins of fungal plant pathogens

Software

Description

References

(A) Localisation

SignalP v3.0, 4.1g, 5.0b

Extracellular secretion via signal peptide. Both NN and HMM methods are run for v3.0. Eukaryotic types specified

23,24,25

Deepsig commit 69e01cb

Extracellular secretion. *-k euk

27

Phobius 1.01

Extracellular secretion

26

LOCALIZER v1.0.4

Host sub-cellular localisation. Using predicted mature proteins from SignalP 5.0b. *-e -M

34

ApoplastP v1.0.1

Apoplast-specific localisation

35

DeepLoc v1.0

Sub-cellular localisation

29

TargetP v2.0

Sub-cellular localisation. *-org non-pl

28

TMHMM v2.0c

Membrane localisation via transmembrane domains. *-d

30

(B) Effector-like properties

EffectorP v1.0, 2.0

Probabilistic prediction of effector likelihood

31,32

EMBOSS: pepstats v6.5.7

Amino acid properties and frequencies

65

(C) Functional annotation

HMMER (vs dbCAN v8) v3.2.1

Used to search dbcan

60,66

MMSeqs2 v10-6d92c (vs PHIBase v4.9)

Used to search phibase. *--max-seqs 300 -e 0.01 -s 7 --num-iterations 3 -a

40,55

MMSeqs2 v10-6d92c (vs known effectors in Supplementary Table S2)

*--max-seqs 300 -e 0.01 -s 7 --num-iterations 3 -a

55

PfamScan (vs Pfam v33.1)

With active site prediction. *-as

67

  1. *Non-default parameters are indicated where applicable.