Table 1 Programs for MHC class I epitope prediction used in this study

BIMAS

http://www-bimas.cit.nih.gov/molbio/hla_bind/

IEDB (SMM)

http://tools.immuneepitope.org/analyze/html/mhc_binding.html

NetMHC

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetMHC/

NetCTLpan

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetCTLpan/

nHLAPred (Compred)

http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/nhlapred/comp.html

PREDEP

http://margalit.huji.ac.il/Teppred/mhc-bind/index.html

ProPred-I

http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/propred1/

SYFPEITHI

http://www.syfpeithi.de/Scripts/MHCServer.dll/EpitopePrediction.htm