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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.36 (see score help below)

   1  MNYSSFLRIWVSFIFALVQHQAQPRELMYPFWQNDTKTPKVDDGSSSEIK    50
51 LAIPVFFFGVPYRTVYVNNNGVVSFNVLVSQFTPESFPLTDGRAFVAPFW 100
101 ADVHNGIRGEIYYRETMEPAILKRATKDIRKYFKDMATFSATWVFIVTWE 150
151 EVTFYGGSSTTPVNTFQAVLVSDGSYTFTLFNYYEINWTTGTASGGDPLT 200
201 GLGGVMAQAGFNGGNLTNFFSLPGSRTPEIVNIQETTNVNVPGRWAFKVD 250
251 GKEIDPANGCTSRGQFLRRGEVFWDDLNCTVKCRCLDFNNEIYCQEASCS 300
301 PYEVCEPKGKFFYCSAVETSTCVVFGEPHYHTFDGFLFHFQGSCAYLLAR 350
351 QCLQTSSLPFFSVEAKNEHRRGSAVSWVKELSVEVNGYKILIPKGSYGRV 400
401 KVNDLVTSLPVTLDLGTVKIYQSGISTAVETDFGLLVTFDGQHYASISVP 450
451 GSYINSTCGLCGNYNKNPLDDFLRPDGRPAMSVLDLGESWRVYHADWKCD 500
501 SGCVDNCTQCDAATEALYFGSDYCGFLNKTDGPLWECGTVVDPTAFVHSC 550
551 VYDLCSVRDNGTLLCQAIQAYALVCQALGIPIGDWRTQTGCVSTVQCPSF 600
601 SHYSVCTSSCPDTCSDLTASRNCATPCTEGCECNQGFVLSTSQCVPLHKC 650
651 GCDFDGHYYTMGEFFWATANCTVQCLCEEGGDVYCFNKTCGSGEVCAVED 700
701 GYQGCFPKRETVCLLSQNQVLHTFDGASYAFPSEFSYTLLKTCPERPEYL 750
751 EIDINKKKPDAGPAWLRGLRILVADQEVKIGGIGASEVKLNGQEVELPFF 800
801 HPSGKLEIYRNKNSTTVESKGVVTVQYSDIGLLYIRLSTTYFNCTGGLCG 850
851 FYNANASDEFCLPNGKCTDNLAVFLESWTTFEEICNGECGDLLKACNNDS 900
901 ELLKFYRSRSRCGIINDPSNSSFLECHGVVNVTAYYRTCLFRLCQSGGNE 950
951 SELCDSVARYASACKNADVEVGPWRTYDFCPLECPENSHFEECITCTETC 1000
1001 ETLTLGPICVDSCSEGCQCDEGYALLGSQCVTRSECGCNFEGHQLATNET 1050
1051 FWVDLDCQIFCYCSGTDNRVHCETIPCKDDEYCMEEGGLYYCQARTDASC 1100
1101 IVSGYGHYLTFDGFPFDFQTSCPLILCTTGSRPSSDSFPKFVVTAKNEDR 1150
1151 DPSLALWVKQVDVTVFGYSIVIHRAYKHTVLVNSERLYLPLKLGQGKINI 1200
1201 FSFGFHVVVETDFGLKVVYDWKTFLSITVPRSMQNSTYGLCGRYNGNPDD 1250
1251 DLEMPMGLLASSVNEFGQSWVKRDTFCQVGCGDRCPSCAKVEGFSKVQQL 1300
1301 CSLIPNQNAAFSKCHSKVNPTFFYKNCLFDSCIDGGAVQTACSWLQNYAS 1350
1351 TCQTQGITVTGWRNYTSCTVTCPPNSHYESCVSVCQPRCAAIRLKSDCSH 1400
1401 YCVEGCHCDAGYVLNGKSCILPHSCGCYSDGKYYEPKQLFWNSDCTRRCR 1450
1451 CFRRNVIQCDPRQCKSDEECALRNGVRGCFSTKTSYCLAAGGGVFRTFDG 1500
1501 AFLRFPANCAFVLSTICQKLPDISFQLIINFDKWSAPNLTIISPVYFYIN 1550
1551 EEQILINDRNTVKVNGTQVNVPFITGLATKIYSSEGFLVIDTSPDIQIYY 1600
1601 NGFNVIKISISERLQNKVCGLCGNFNGDLTDDYVTLRGKPVVSSVVLAQS 1650
1651 WKTNGMQKRPLAPSCNELQFSQYAAMCDNVHIQKMQGDGYCLKLTDMKGF 1700
1701 FQPCYGLLDPLPFYESCYLDGCYSHKKFQLCGSLAAYGEACRSFGILSTE 1750
1751 WIEKENCSGVVEDPCVGADCPNRTCELGNGRELCGCIEPPPYGNNSHDII 1800
1801 DAEVTCKAAQMEVSISKCKLFQLGFEREGVRINDRQCTGIEGEDFISFQI 1850
1851 NNTKGNCGNIVQSNGTHIMYKNTLWIESANNTGNIITRDRTINVEFSCAY 1900
1901 ELDIKISLDSVVKPMLSVINLTVPTQEGSFITKMALYKNASYKHPYRQGE 1950
1951 VVLTTRDVLYVGVFVVGADATHLILTLNKCYATPTRDSNDKLRYFIIEGG 2000
2001 CQNLKDNTIGIEENAVSLTCRFHVTVFKFIGDYDEVHLHCAVSLCDSEKY 2050
2051 SCKITCPHNSRIATDYTKEPKEQIISVGPIRRKRLDWCEDNGGCEQICTS 2100
2101 RVDGPLCSCVTGTLQEDGKSCRASNSSMELQVWTLLLIMIQISLWHFVYK 2150
2151 SGTTS 2155

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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