SBC logo Authors: Amine Heddad, Andrea Krings, Markus Brameier and Bob MacCallum, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Sweden.

NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.48 (see score help below)

   1  MEQRRPWPRALEVDSRSVVLLSVVWVLLAPPAAGMPQFSTFHSENRDWTF    50
51 NHLTVHQGTGAVYVGAINRVYKLTGNLTIQVAHKTGPEEDNKSCYPPLIV 100
101 QPCSEVLTLTNNVNKLLIIDYSENRLLACGSLYQGVCKLLRLDDLFILVE 150
151 PSHKKEHYLSSVNKTGTMYGVIVRSEGEDGKLFIGTAVDGKQDYFPTLSS 200
201 RKLPRDPESSAMLDYELHSDFVSSLIKIPSDTLALVSHFDIFYIYGFASG 250
251 GFVYFLTVQPETPEGVAINSAGDLFYTSRIVRLCKDDPKFHSYVSLPFGC 300
301 TRAGVEYRLLQAAYLAKPGDSLAQAFNITSQDDVLFAIFSKGQKQYHHPP 350
351 DDSALCAFPIRAINLQIKERLQSCYQGEGNLELNWLLGKDVQCTKAPVPI 400
401 DDNFCGLDINQPLGGSTPVEGLTLYTTSRDRMTSVASYVYNGYSVVFVGT 450
451 KSGKLKKIRADGPPHGGVQYEMVSVLKDGSPILRDMAFSIDQRYLYVMSE 500
501 RQVTRVPVESCEQYTTCGECLSSGDPHCGWCALHNMCSRRDKCQQAWEPN 550
551 RFAASISQCVSLAVHPSSISVSEHSRLLSLVVSDAPDLSAGIACAFGNLT 600
601 EVEGQVSGSQVICISPGPKDVPVIPLDQDWFGLELQLRSKETGKIFVSTE 650
651 FKFYNCSAHQLCLSCVNSAFRCHWCKYRNLCTHDPTTCSFQEGRINISED 700
701 CPQLVPTEEILIPVGEVKPITLKARNLPQPQSGQRGYECVLNIQGAIHRV 750
751 PALRFNSSSVQCQNSSYQYDGMDISNLAVDFAVVWNGNFIIDNPQDLKVH 800
801 LYKCAAQRESCGLCLKADRKFECGWCSGERRCTLHQHCTSPSSPWLDWSS 850
851 HNVKCSNPQITEILTVSGPPEGGTRVTIHGVNLGLDFSEIAHHVQVAGVP 900
901 CTPLPGEYIIAEQIVCEMGHALVGTTSGPVRLCIGECKPEFMTKSHQQYT 950
951 FVNPSVLSLNPIRGPESGGTMVTITGHYLGAGSSVAVYLGNQTCEFYGRS 1000
1001 MSEIVCVSPPSSNGLGPVPVSVSVDRAHVDSNLQFEYIDDPRVQRIEPEW 1050
1051 SIASGHTPLTITGFNLDVIQEPRIRVKFNGKESVNVCKVVNTTTLTCLAP 1100
1101 SLTTDYRPGLDTVERPDEFGFVFNNVQSLLIYNDTKFIYYPNPTFELLSP 1150
1151 TGVLDQKPGSPIILKGKNLCPPASGGAKLNYTVLIGETPCAVTVSETQLL 1200
1201 CEPPNLTGQHKVMVHVGGMVFSPGSVSVISDSLLTLPAIVSIAAGGSLLL 1250
1251 IIVIIVLIAYKRKSRENDLTLKRLQMQMDNLESRVALECKEAFAELQTDI 1300
1301 NELTSDLDRSGIPYLDYRTYAMRVLFPGIEDHPVLRELEVQGNGQQHVEK 1350
1351 ALKLFAQLINNKVFLLTFIRTLELQRSFSMRDRGNVASLIMTGLQGRLEY 1400
1401 ATDVLKQLLSDLIDKNLENKNHPKLLLRRTESVAEKMLTNWFAFLLHKFL 1450
1451 KECAGEPLFMLYCAIKQQMEKGPIDAITGEARYSLSEDKLIRQQIEYKTL 1500
1501 ILNCVNPDNENSPEIPVKVLNCDTITQVKEKILDAVYKNVPYSQRPRAVD 1550
1551 MDLEWRQGRIARVVLQDEDITTKIEGDWKRLNTLMHYQVSDRSVVALVPK 1600
1601 QTSSYNIPASASISRTSISRYDSSFRYTGSPDSLRSRAPMITPDLESGVK 1650
1651 VWHLVKNHDHGDQKEGDRGSKMVSEIYLTRLLATKGTLQKFVDDLFETLF 1700
1701 STVHRGSALPLAIKYMFDFLDEQADRHSIHDTDVRHTWKSNCLPLRFWVN 1750
1751 VIKNPQFVFDIHKGSITDACLSVVAQTFMDSCSTSEHRLGKDSPSNKLLY 1800
1801 AKDIPSYKSWVERYYADIAKLPAISDQDMNAYLAEQSRLHAVEFNMLSAL 1850
1851 NEIYSYVSKYSEELIGALEQDEQARRQRLAYKVEQLINAMSIES 1894

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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