Table 2.

Benchmark results of MCC2 for SignalP 6.0, Fine-tuning ESM2-3B, and PEFT-SP models using different PEFT methods with the ESM2-3B backbone

Method/BackboneFine-tuningPrompt tuningAdapter tuningLoRA
SP typesSignalP 6.0ESM2-3BESM2-3BESM2-3BESM2-3B
Archaea Sec/SPI0.7930.7710.7770.8250.783
Archaea Sec/SPII0.8250.8640.5090.7830.730
Archaea Sec/SPIIIa0.4260.7240.5000.3510.798
Archaea Tat/SPI0.5630.5640.6530.5380.579
Archaea Tat/SPIIa0.7180.7920.1820.6600.850
Eukarya Sec/SPI0.9580.9480.9540.9540.960
Negative Sec/SPI0.8040.8130.7230.8200.809
Negative Sec/SPII0.9290.9460.8860.9500.945
Negative Sec/SPIIIa0.9020.9820.9700.8990.919
Negative Tat/SPI0.9620.9020.8530.8990.961
Negative Tat/SPIIa0.4860.3580.3250.4050.520
Positive Sec/SPI0.7700.8100.7460.8140.848
Positive Sec/SPII0.8820.9080.8330.9110.939
Positive Sec/SPIIIa0.9021.0000.9510.9691.000
Positive Tat/SPI0.7990.7460.5900.7520.850
Positive Tat/SPIIa0.7860.6030.1480.6690.783
Mean (MCC2)0.7810.7960.6630.7620.830

[i] The bold values indicate the highest value for each SP type among all methods.

[ii] aSP types with limited training samples.