The protein sequences of the three known vaccine targets (KP),
the exposed regions of the two membrane-associated vaccine
targets (KP), and the previously selected twenty-five unknown
proteins (UP) were used to predict their promiscuous epitopes
using three different prediction programs: Rankpep, SYFPEITHI,
and NetMHCII 3.2. These programs compare the submitted
sequences to specific matrices for each HLA, and predict the binding
affinity of the epitopes for the different HLAs.