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Proteins are targeted to the translocon by an N-terminal signal peptide. The targeting is also aided by the fact that the N-terminal helix is more hydrophobic than other TM-helices. In addition, we also recently found that the C-terminal helix is more hydrophobic than central helices. This information has not been used in earlier topology predictors.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Here, we use the fact that the N- and C-terminal helices are more hydrophobic to develop a new version of the first-principle-based topology predictor, SCAMPI. The new predictor has two main advantages; first, it can be used to efficiently separate membrane and non-membrane proteins directly without the use of an extra prefilter, and second it shows improved performance for predicting the topology of membrane proteins that contain large non-membrane domains.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: The predictor, a web server and all datasets are available at http:\/\/scampi.bioinfo.se\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0arne@bioinfo.se<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv709","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,9]],"date-time":"2015-12-09T01:08:44Z","timestamp":1449623324000},"page":"1158-1162","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":47,"title":["Improved topology prediction using the terminal hydrophobic helices rule"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Christoph","family":"Peters","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory and"}]},{"given":"Konstantinos D.","family":"Tsirigos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory and"}]},{"given":"Nanjiang","family":"Shu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory and"},{"name":"2 Sweden Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences (BILS), Stockholm University, Solna 17121, Sweden"}]},{"given":"Arne","family":"Elofsson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory and"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020112010674600_btv709-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3389","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/25.17.3389","article-title":"Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs","volume":"25","author":"Altschul","year":"1997","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res"},{"key":"2023020112010674600_btv709-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7177","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0711151105","article-title":"Prediction of membrane-protein topology from first principles","volume":"105","author":"Bernsel","year":"2008","journal-title":"Proc. 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