TopProperty Documentation Page

Submitting a Job

The job will be available for 7 days after the calculations are finished. After that, it will be deleted. User entered data will not be shared with any third parties.

Email

Entering an email address is optional. If you provide an email address, a link to the results webpage will be send to that email. Your email address will not be shared with any third parties.


Sequence Input

Sequence input can be provided by copying sequence in the text field or by uploading a fasta file. TopProperty predicts only protein properties, therefore every symbol not corresponding to a capital letter amino acid symbol is turned into an alanine ('A'). Fasta headers are removed. The length of the entered sequence must be between 30 and 1000 residues. The server will only accept single sequences, i.e. the first sequence in fasta file. If you want to model multiple proteins, please submit the sequences separately.


Giving a Job Name

An optional job name can be set. The downloadable results files will then have the job name as an identifier. The job name must not be longer than 30 characters and may only consist of letters, numbers, and the underscore ('_') symbol.


Example Runs

If you want to try out the Server without providing a sequence, three example runs are prepared.


Interpreting the Results

TopProperty output is presented in an easy-to-read alignment-style format.
The individual sequences in the alignment represent the following:

Seq

This is the amino-acid sequence of the protein colored according to amino-acid properties based on the ClustalW coloring scheme.


SS

This is a sequence of numbers representing the confidence of the secondary structure (SS) classification. The maximum value is 9 which represents more than 95% confidence. The minimum value is 3 and represents less than 40% confidence. The coloring corresponds to the predicted 3-state secondary structure labels:
- Helical residues are red.
- Strand residues are yellow.
- Coil residues are green.


SA

This is a sequence of numbers representing the confidence of the solvent accessibility (SA) classification. The maximum value is 9 which represents more than 95% confidence. The minimum value is 3 and represents less than 40% confidence. The coloring corresponds to the predicted 3-state solvent accessibility labels:
- Buried residues (Relative solvent accessibility < 10%) are colored magenta.
- Partially exposed (Relative solvent accessibility 10-40%) are colored blue.
- Fully exposed residues (Relative solvent accessibility > 40%) are colored orange.


RSA

This is a sequence of numbers representing the relative solvent accessibility (RSA) prediction scaled from 0 to 9. The coloring corresponds to a gradient of solvent accessibility:
- Residues with a relative solvent accessibility < 50% are colored shades of red.
- Residues with a relative solvent accessibility > 50% are colored shades of blue.


TMT

This is a sequence of numbers representing the confidence of the trans-membrane topology (TMT) prediction. The maximum value is 9 which represents more than 95% confidence. The minimum value is 3 and represents less than 40% confidence. The coloring corresponds to the predicted 3-state topology prediction:
- Residues inside the cell are colored orange.
- Residues in the membrane are colored red.
- Residues outside the cell are colored blue.


ME

This is a sequence of numbers representing the confidence of the membrane exposure (ME) classification. The maximum value is 9 which represents more than 95% confidence. The minimum value is 5 and represents less than 60% confidence.
- Membrane exposed residues (Membrane exposure > 50%) are colored magenta.
- Not exposed residues (Membrane exposure < 50%) are colored light green.


RME

This is a sequence of numbers representing the relative membrane exposure (RME) prediction scaled from 0 to 9. The coloring corresponds to a gradient of membrane exposure:
- Residues with a relative membrane exposure < 50% are colored shades of red.
- Residues with a relative membrane exposure > 50% are colored shades of blue.

For further explanation of the predictions please see the TopProperty paper.

Support

If you have any questions or suggestions, please write an email to cpcweb[at]uni-duesseldorf.de.


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