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Here, we evaluated the ability of PCPS immunoproteasome cleavage model to discriminate CD8<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> T cell epitopes.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We first assembled an epitope dataset consisting of 844 unique virus-specific CD8<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> T cell epitopes and their source proteins. We then analyzed cleavage predictions by PCPS immunoproteasome cleavage model on this dataset and compared them with those provided by a related method implemented by NetChop web server. PCPS was clearly superior to NetChop in term of sensitivity (0.89 vs. 0.79) but somewhat inferior with regard to specificity (0.55 vs. 0.60). Judging by the Mathew\u2019s Correlation Coefficient, PCPS predictions were overall superior to those provided by NetChop (0.46 vs. 0.39). We next analyzed the power of C-terminal cleavage predictions provided by the same PCPS model to discriminate CD8<jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> T\u00a0cell epitopes, finding that they could be discriminated from random peptides with an accuracy of 0.74. 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