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. 2017 Mar 30;12(3):e0174638. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174638

Table 2. Original features and results of selected features.

Abbreviations Description Selection Results Tool
GN GP Full
Intrinsic feature Gene size Length of genes * *
strand Negative or positive strand *
protein size Length of amino acids *
Codon bias T3s Silent base compositions about T * * * CodonW [20]
C3s Silent base compositions about C * *
A3s Silent base compositions about A * *
G3s Silent base compositions about G * * *
CAI Codon Adaptation Index * * *
CBI Codon Bias Index *
Fop Frequency of Optimal codons
Nc The effective number of codons * *
GC3s G+C content 3rd position of synonymous codons
GC G+C content of the gene * *
L_sym Length of system amino acids *
Gravy Hydropathicity of protein * *
Aromo The frequency of aromatic amino acids
Amino acid usage Amino acid A, R, D, C, Q, H, I, N, L, K, M, F, P, S, T, W, Y, V *
Amino acid R, D, C, E, H, L, G, N, K, F, P, S, T, M, V *
Amino acid A, R, C, Q, D, H, I, G, N, L, K, M, F, P, S, T, W, V, Y *
Rare_aa_ratio The frequencies of rare amino acids *
Close_aa_ratio The number of codons that one third-base mutationis removed from a stop codon
Physio- chemical Properties M_weight Molecular weight Pepstats [21]
I_Point Isoelectric Point * *
Tiny Number of mole of the amino acids (A+C+G+S+T) * * *
Small Number of mole of the amino acids (A+B+C+D+G+N+P+S+T+V)
Aliphatic Number of mole of the amino acids (A+I+L+V) * *
Aromatic Number of mole of the amino acids (F+H+W+Y) * * *
Non-polar Number of mole of the amino acids (A+C+F+G+I+L+M+P+V+W+Y) * *
Polar Number of mole of the amino acids (D+E+H+K+N+Q+R+S+T+Z) * *
Charged Number of mole of the amino acids (B+D+E+H+K+R+Z) * *
Basic Number of mole of the amino acids (H+K+R) * *
Acidic Number of mole of the amino acids (B+D+E+Z) * *
Transmembrane helices ExpAA The number of transmembrane amino acids * TMHMM3
[22]
First60 The number of transmembrane amino acids in first 60 * * *
PredHel The final prediction of transmembrane helices
Subcellular localization Cytom Cytoplasmic Membrane Score PSORTb v3.0 [23]
Extra Extracellular Score * * *
OuterM Outer Membrane Score
Peri Periplasmic Score *
Cyto Cytoplasmic Score * * *
Cellw Cell wall Score *
Loc_s Final Score * * *
Hurst exponent Hurst The Hurst exponent * * R package [24]
Total features (dimension) 37 38 40

* indicates a selected feature. If a feature was selected from two or three of the sets (GN, GP, Full), then it should be considered significantly associated with essentiality.