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 0.27 (see score help below)

   1  MGRDQRAVAGPALRRWLLLGTVTVGFLAQSVLAGVKKFDVPCGGRDCSGG    50
51 CQCYPEKGGRGQPGPVGPQGYNGPPGLQGFPGLQGRKGDKGERGAPGVTG 100
101 PKGDVGARGVSGFPGADGIPGHPGQGGPRGRPGYDGCNGTQGDSGPQGPP 150
151 GSEGFTGPPGPQGPKGQKGEPYALPKEERDRYRGEPGEPGLVGFQGPPGR 200
201 PGHVGQMGPVGAPGRPGPPGPPGPKGQQGNRGLGFYGVKGEKGDVGQPGP 250
251 NGIPSDTLHPIIAPTGVTFHPDQYKGEKGSEGEPGIRGISLKGEEGIMGF 300
301 PGLRGYPGLSGEKGSPGQKGSRGLDGYQGPDGPRGPKGEAGDPGPPGLPA 350
351 YSPHPSLAKGARGDPGFPGAQGEPGSQGEPGDPGLPGPPGLSIGDGDQRR 400
401 GLPGEMGPKGFIGDPGIPALYGGPPGPDGKRGPPGPPGLPGPPGPDGFLF 450
451 GLKGAKGRAGFPGLPGSPGARGPKGWKGDAGECRCTEGDEAIKGLPGLPG 500
501 PKGFAGINGEPGRKGDRGDPGQHGLPGFPGLKGVPGNIGAPGPKGAKGDS 550
551 RTITTKGERGQPGVPGVPGMKGDDGSPGRDGLDGFPGLPGPPGDGIKGPP 600
601 GDPGYPGIPGTKGTPGEMGPPGLGLPGLKGQRGFPGDAGLPGPPGFLGPP 650
651 GPAGTPGQIDCDTDVKRAVGGDRQEAIQPGCIGGPKGLPGLPGPPGPTGA 700
701 KGLRGIPGFAGADGGPGPRGLPGDAGREGFPGPPGFIGPRGSKGAVGLPG 750
751 PDGSPGPIGLPGPDGPPGERGLPGEVLGAQPGPRGDAGVPGQPGLKGLPG 800
801 DRGPPGFRGSQGMPGMPGLKGQPGLPGPSGQPGLYGPPGLHGFPGAPGQE 850
851 GPLGLPGIPGREGLPGDRGDPGDTGAPGPVGMKGLSGDRGDAGFTGEQGH 900
901 PGSPGFKGIDGMPGTPGLKGDRGSPGMDGFQGMPGLKGRPGFPGSKGEAG 950
951 FFGIPGLKGLAGEPGFKGSRGDPGPPGPPPVILPGMKDIKGEKGDEGPMG 1000
1001 LKGYLGAKGIQGMPGIPGLSGIPGLPGRPGHIKGVKGDIGVPGIPGLPGF 1050
1051 PGVAGPPGITGFPGFIGSRGDKGAPGRAGLYGEIGATGDFGDIGDTINLP 1100
1101 GRPGLKGERGTTGIPGLKGFFGEKGTEGDIGFPGITGVTGVQGPPGLKGQ 1150
1151 TGFPGLTGPPGSQGELGRIGLPGGKGDDGWPGAPGLPGFPGLRGIRGLHG 1200
1201 LPGTKGFPGSPGSDIHGDPGFPGPPGERGDPGEANTLPGPVGVPGQKGDQ 1250
1251 GAPGERGPPGSPGLQGFPGITPPSNISGAPGDKGAPGIFGLKGYRGPPGP 1300
1301 PGSAALPGSKGDTGNPGAPGTPGTKGWAGDSGPQGRPGVFGLPGEKGPRG 1350
1351 EQGFMGNTGPTGAVGDRGPKGPKGDPGFPGAPGTVGAPGIAGIPQKIAVQ 1400
1401 PGTVGPQGRRGPPGAPGEMGPQGPPGEPGFRGAPGKAGPQGRGGVSAVPG 1450
1451 FRGDEGPIGHQGPIGQEGAPGRPGSPGLPGMPGRSVSIGYLLVKHSQTDQ 1500
1501 EPMCPVGMNKLWSGYSLLYFEGQEKAHNQDLGLAGSCLARFSTMPFLYCN 1550
1551 PGDVCYYASRNDKSYWLSTTAPLPMMPVAEDEIKPYISRCSVCEAPAIAI 1600
1601 AVHSQDVSIPHCPAGWRSLWIGYSFLMHTAAGDEGGGQSLVSPGSCLEDF 1650
1651 RATPFIECNGGRGTCHYYANKYSFWLTTIPEQSFQGSPSADTLKAGLIRT 1700
1701 HISRCQVCMKNL 1712

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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