Table 1 Programs applied in this study predicting different N-terminal targeting signals

Programs that distinguish SP, pTP and mTP

iPSORT

[180]

Predotar 1.03

[181]

PredSL

[182]

PProwler 1.2

[183]

TargetP 1.1

[184]

Programs predicting SP

DetecSig in ConPred II

[185]

HECTAR^SEC

[186]

Phobius

[187]

PrediSi

[188]

ProtCompB - Version 9

[189]

PSORTb v3.0

[190]

RPSP

[191]

Sigcleave in EMBOSS 3.0.0

[192]

SIGFIND 2.11

[193]

Signal-3 L

[194]

Signal-CF

[195]

SignalP-HMM 3.0

[196]

SignalP-NN 3.0

[197]

SIG-Pred

[198]

SOSUIsignal

[199]