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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.56 (see score help below)

   1  MESRALLAVALWFCVETRAASVGLPGDSLHPPKLSTQKDILTILANTTLQ    50
51 ITCRGQRDLDWLWPNTPRDSEERVLVTECGDSIFCKTLTVPRVVGNDTGA 100
101 YKCFYRDTDVSSIVYVYVQDHRSPFIASVSDEHGIVYITENKNKTVVIPC 150
151 RGSISNLNVSLCARYPEKRFVPDGNRISWDSEKGFTIPSYMISYAGMVFC 200
201 EAKINDETYQSIMYIVLVVGYRIYDVVLSPPHEIELSAGEKLVLNCTART 250
251 ELNVGLDFSWQFPSSKHQHKKIVNRDVKSLPGTVAKMFLSTLTIDSVTKS 300
301 DQGEYTCTAYSGLMTKKNKTFVRVHTKPFIAFGSGMKSLVEATVGSQVRI 350
351 PVKYLSYPAPDIKWYRNGRPIESNYTMIVGDELTIMEVSERDAGNYTVIL 400
401 TNPISMEKQSHMVSLVVNVPPQIGEKALISPMDSYQYGTMQTLTCTVYAN 450
451 PPLHHIQWYWQLEEACSYRPSQTNPYTCKEWRHVKDFQGGNKIEVTKNQY 500
501 ALIEGKNKTVSTLVIQAAYVSALYKCEAINKAGRGERVISFHVIRGPEIT 550
551 VQPATQPTERESMSLLCTADRNTFENLTWYKLGSQATSVHMGESLTPVCK 600
601 NLDALWKLNGTVFSNSTNDILIVAFQNASLQDQGNYVCSAQDKKTKKRHC 650
651 LVKQLVILERMAPMITGNLENQTTTIGETIEVVCPTSGNPTPLITWFKDN 700
701 ETLVEDSGIVLKDGNRNLTIRRVRKEDGGLYTCQACNVLGCARAETLFII 750
751 EGVQEKTNLEVIILVGTAVIAMFFWLLLVILVRTVKRANEGELKTGYLSI 800
801 VMDPDELPLDERCERLPYDASKWEFPRDRLKLGKPLGRGAFGQVIEADAF 850
851 GIDKTATCKTVAVKMLKEGATHSEHRALMSELKILIHIGHHLNVVNLLGA 900
901 CTKPGGPLMVIVEFCKFGNLSTYLRGKRNEFVPYKSKGARFRSGKDYVGE 950
951 LSVDLKRRLDSITSSQSSASSGFVEEKSLSDVEEEEASEELYKDFLTLEH 1000
1001 LICYSFQVAKGMEFLASRKCIHRDLAARNILLSEKNVVKICDFGLARDIY 1050
1051 KDPDYVRKGDPRLPLKWMAPETIFDRIYTIQSGVWSFGVLLWEIFSLGAS 1100
1101 PYPGVKIDEKFCRRLKEGTRMRAPDYTTPEMYQTMLDCWHEDPNQRPAFS 1150
1151 ELVEHLGNLLQANAQQDGKDYIVLPMSETLSMEEDSGLSLPTSPVSCMEE 1200
1201 EEVCDPKFHYDNTAGISHYLQNSKRKSRPVSVKTFEDIPLEEPEVKVIPD 1250
1251 DSQTDSGMVLASEELKTLEDRNKLSPSFGGMMPSKSRESVASEGSNQTSG 1300
1301 YQSGYHSDDTDTTVYSSDEAGLLKLVDVAGHVDSGTTLRSSPV 1343

Positively and negatively influencing subsequences are coloured according to the following scale:

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If you find NucPred useful, please cite this paper:
NucPred - Predicting Nuclear Localization of Proteins. Brameier M, Krings A, Maccallum RM. Bioinformatics, 2007. PubMed id: 17332022
The authors also look forward to your comments and suggestions.

What does the NucPred score mean?

You have to decide on a NucPred score threshold. Sequences which score greater than or equal to this threshold are predicted to spend some time in the nucleus. Higher thresholds yield fewer predicted nuclear proteins, but these predictions are more accurate (you can have higher confidence in them). The table below gives more details of the performance of NucPred estimated using the sequences it was trained on (by cross-validation). Another benchmark is available in the Bioinformatics 2007 paper.

NucPred score threshold Specificity Sensitivity
see above fraction of proteins predicted to be nuclear that actually are nuclear fraction of true nuclear proteins that are predicted (coverage)
0.10 0.45 0.88
0.20 0.52 0.83
0.30 0.57 0.77
0.40 0.63 0.69
0.50 0.70 0.62
0.60 0.71 0.53
0.70 0.81 0.44
0.80 0.84 0.32
0.90 0.88 0.21
1.00 1.00 0.02

Sequences which score >= 0.8 with NucPred and which are predicted by PredictNLS to contain an NLS have been shown to be 93% correct with a coverage of 16%. (PredictNLS by itself is 87% correct with 26% coverage on the same data.)

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