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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 2014 Jun 27;24(3):161–190. doi: 10.1159/000363506

Table 1.

Comparison of 9 topology prediction algorithms to evaluate prediction accuracy.

A. Major Facilitator (MFS): Sugar Porter Family (84 Proteins) # Proteins predicted to have the specified #s of TMSs
TC# 2.A.1.1 (Actual: 12 TMSs) #TMSs: 6 N/A 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
HMMTOP 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 77 0
SVMTOP 0 0 0 0 0 5 27 49 3
TMHMM 0 0 0 2 4 14 10 54 0
DAS 0 0 1 1 4 6 28 36 8
SOSUI 2 0 1 3 4 13 31 29 1
TOPCONS 0 0 0 0 1 7 3 75 0
PHOBIUS 1 0 1 3 20 61 0 0 0
MEMSAT 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 78 0
SPOCTUPUS 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 80 0
B. Amino Acid-Polyamine-Organocation (APC) (91 Proteins)
TC # 2.A.3 (Actual: 12 TMSs1) # TMSs: 8 N/A 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
HMMTOP 0 0 0 4 5 69 6 6 1
SVMTOP 1 0 0 5 10 52 16 6 1
TMHMM 0 0 1 9 17 55 3 5 1
DAS 0 0 0 5 13 44 22 6 1
SOSUI 0 0 3 6 28 39 10 5 0
TOPCONS 0 0 0 6 1 74 3 7 0
PHOBIUS 0 0 1 9 6 62 5 7 1
MEMSAT 1 0 1 4 4 70 4 2 5
SPOCTUPUS 0 0 1 6 4 61 4 15 0
C. Mitochondrial Carrier (MC) (88 Proteins)
TC # 2.A.29 (Actual: 6 TMSs) # TMSs: 0 N/A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9
HMMTOP 9 0 2 7 8 25 12 23 2 0
SVMTOP 55 0 0 2 6 9 8 6 1 1
TMHMM 50 0 7 13 11 5 2 0 0 0
DAS 22 0 23 16 18 6 2 1 0 0
SOSUI 73 0 1 8 3 3 0 0 0 0
TOPCONS 66 0 0 3 8 8 2 1 0 0
PHOBIUS 46 0 11 15 10 4 1 1 0 0
MEMSAT 0 0 1 2 0 5 12 68 0 0
SPOCTUPUS 0 0 3 1 1 0 4 79 0 0
D. Potassium Transporter (Trk) (20 Proteins)
TC # 2.A.38 (Actual: 8 TMSs2) # TMSs: 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
HMMTOP 0 0 0 3 3 6 4 4
SVMTOP 1 0 0 0 0 6 7 6
TMHMM 0 0 0 3 5 8 3 1
DAS 0 0 0 0 2 6 7 5
SOSUI 0 0 1 1 2 10 3 3
TOPCONS 0 0 0 2 3 8 5 0
PHOBIUS 0 0 0 1 3 6 6 4
MEMSAT 0 3 3 7 1 5 1 0
SPOCTUPUS 0 0 4 10 2 6 0 0
1

Four members of the APC superfamily in TCDB are believe to have 10 TMSs, 6 have 14 TMSs, and 1 has 15 TMSs (See APC family description).

2

One member of the Trk family in TCDB (2.A.38.1.5) is believed to have 10 TMSs, with 2 extra N-terminal TMSs preceding the four repeats.