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Table 2 Different Blast thresholds on TCDB

From: TooT-T: discrimination of transport proteins from non-transport proteins

Name

BLAST Threshold

Motivation

TCDB_exact

e-value=0; percent identity 100%

exact match

TCDB_high

e-value 1e–20; percent identity 40%; query coverage 70%; subject coverage 70%; and difference in length of 10%

thresholds recommended by Butler et al. [3] for TCDB Blast

TCDB_med

e-value 1e–8%

threshold recommended by Barghash et al. [4] as an acceptable normalized BLAST threshold when dealing with a TC system