**2. Peach Allergens**

To date, six peach allergens have been recognized [13]. Detailed information on each allergenic protein is provided in Table 1 [14–39].

**Table 1.** Main features of peach molecular allergens. Modified from [35].

kDa: kilodaltons, IgE: immunoglobulin E; sIgE: specific IgE.


**5.2 Adjusted Rand Index**

There are several similarity measures for cluster evaluation, we chose to work with the adjusted Rand index which is the corrected-for-chance version of the Rand index. It is a measure used in data clustering to evaluate the performance of a clustering method, by comparing the results of a clustering algorithm against known classes from external criteria [26]. In our study, we performed different sample-based classification method on four different datasets, after that, we compared the results to the class labels we associated to each sample based on the field "characterization of the samples" in the phenotype table in recount2, then we used the ARI for cluster validation.


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