Table 2.

Confidence score of homologs from Swiss-Prot database.

Evaluation method	Criteria	Points
BLAST e-value	< 0.001	1
Sequence identity between the query and the hit	identity 30% to 50%, coverage > 40%	1
	identity 50% to 70%, coverage > 40%	2
	identity 70% to 90%, coverage > 40%	3
	identity 90% to 99%, coverage > 40%	4
	identity > 99%, coverage > 40%	5
BLAST alignment coverage for both query and hit	60% to 80%	1
	80% to 100%	2
The query against the proteome associated with the hit	Best hit	2
	N/A	1
The hit against the proteome associated with the query	Best hit	2
	N/A	1