Table 1.

Summary of the bioinformatics tools used in the study

S. no.	Name of database/tool	Functional prediction	Web address
1	SignalP	Presence and location of signal peptide cleavage sites	http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/
2	TMHMM	Transmembrane helices in the integral membrane proteins	http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TMHMM/
3	VaxiJen	Prediction of protective antigens	http://www.ddg-pharmfac.net/vaxijen/VaxiJen/VaxiJen.html
4	SCRATCH protein predictor: ANTIGENpro, BETAWRAP, SOLpro and ABTMpro	Antigenicity, super secondary structural motif, solubility and transmembrane regions	http://scratch.proteomics.ics.uci.edu/
5	NetCTL	CTL epitopes prediction	http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetCTL/
6	OptiTope	Selection of optimal epitope set based on population coverage	http://etk.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/optitope
7	BIMAS	MHC class I-binding affinity prediction	https://www-bimas.cit.nih.gov/molbio/hla_bind/
8	PAComplex	Infer peptide antigen family and TCR–pMHC binding model	http://pacomplex.life.nctu.edu.tw/