Pathogenic Protist Transmembranome database (PPTdb): a web-based platform for searching and analysis of protist transmembrane proteins

Table 2 A comparison table between PPTdb and other protist transporter resources

Tool	PPTdb	TCDB	TransportDB
Protist Genomes	139	75^a	11
Designed for	Protist-human transporter studies	Transporter classification	Transporter knowledgebase
Annotations	■	■	■
Human homology search	■	■	–
Functional keyword search^b	■	□	□
Pairwise protist comparison	■	–	–
Visualized comparison results	■	–	■
Integrated Transport classification id	■	■	–

■: full function; □: partial function; −: NA
^across reference to EupathDB by species name
^bPPTdb provides iterative functional mining, other resources offer only one-way search

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