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Table 2 Comparison of the results of all available systems and proposed search methods on the validation set. SEN Sensitivity, SPE Specificity, PPV Positive Predictive Value, ACC Accuracy, MCC Matthew’s Correlation Coefficient, Avg-AUC Average Area Under the Curve. (Accessed date: July 2017)

From: Conformational epitope matching and prediction based on protein surface spiral features

Prediction System

SEN

SPC

PPV

ACC

F1 score

MCC

Avg-AUC

Prediction Condition

CEKEG (2013)

0.528

0.786

0.292

0.775

0.370

0.236

0.657

Best Result from Top3 prediction

ElliPro (2008)

0.343

0.901

0.357

0.826

0.300

0.227

0.622

Best Result from Top3 prediction

CBTOPE (2010)

0.334

0.665

0.087

0.597

0.133

0.000

0.500

SVM threshold: 0.3 (default)

Epitopia (2009)

0.274

0.836

0.187

0.761

0.210

0.081

0.555

Immunogenicity Scale: 5

EPSVR (2010)

0.198

0.815

0.137

0.733

0.152

0.007

0.507

Epitope score > 80

Discotope2.0 (2012)

0.190

0.847

0.244

0.773

0.140

0.065

0.518

Threshold: −3.7 (default)

Search System

TPR

SPC

PPV

ACC

F1 score

MCC

Avg-AUC

Prediction Condition

CSS

0.120

0.978

0.132

0.890

0.123

0.028

0.549

Best Result from Top3 prediction

SVS

0.473

0.869

0.365

0.853

0.396

0.307

0.671

Best Result from Top3 prediction