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. 2005 Oct 14;6:254. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-254

Table 1.

Summary of the parameters for β-barrel prediction

scorea definition of the parameterb value usedc
EBSS β-strand length 10 aa
Core region 4 aa
BSNd Number of individual peaks EBSS >2.0
β-strand length 10 aa
HPS β-strand length 10 aa
Loop length 0–14 aad
BBS HPS cut off >6.0
BBS275d HPS cut off >6.0
Sliding window 275 aa
BSHS225d EBSS cut off for strands >2.0
Sliding window 225 aa

For detailed descriptions see text. a ... The different intermediate scores necessary for final calculation of the β-barrel score; b ... the scores are calculated by various physicochemical assumptions; c ... the parameters for the different scores were used as suggested by Wimley, if not stated differently [14]; d ... described in here