Table 1 The bioinformatics tools adopted for the prediction of secreted proteins from S. lycopersici

SignalP v4.1

Signal peptides

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/

TMHMM v2.0

Transmembrane domains

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TMHMM/

big-PI Fungal Predictor

GPI-anchor site

http://mendel.imp.ac.at/gpi/fungi_server.html

ProtComp v9.0

sub-cellular localization

http://www.softberry.com/

TargetP v1.1

localization

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TargetP/