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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.18 (see score help below)

   1  MLKFRTVHGGLRLLGIRRTSTAPAASPNVRRLEYKPIKKVMVANRGEIAI    50
51 RVFRACTELGIRTVAIYSEQDTGQMHRQKADEAYLIGRGLAPVQAYLHIP 100
101 DIIKVAKENNVDAVHPGYGFLSERADFAQACQDAGVRFIGPSPEVVRKMG 150
151 DKVEARAIAIAAGVPVVPGTDAPITSLHEAHEFSNTYGFPIIFKAAYGGG 200
201 GRGMRVVHSYEELEENYTRAYSEALAAFGNGALFVEKFIEKPRHIEVQIL 250
251 GDQYGNILHLYERDCSIQRRHQKVVEIAPAAHLDPQLRTRLTSDSVKLAK 300
301 QVGYENAGTVEFLVDRHGKHYFIEVNSRLQVEHTVTEEITDVDLVHAQIH 350
351 VAEGRSLPDLGLRQENIRINGCAIQCRVTTEDPARSFQPDTGRIEVFRSG 400
401 EGMGIRLDNASAFQGAVISPHYDSLLVKVIAHGKDHPTAATKMSRALAEF 450
451 RVRGVKTNIAFLQNVLNNQQFLAGTVDTQFIDENPELFQLRPAQNRAQKL 500
501 LHYLGHVMVNGPTTPIPVKASPSPTDPVVPAVPIGPPPAGFRDILLREGP 550
551 EGFARAVRNHPGLLLMDTTFRDAHQSLLATRVRTHDLKKIAPYVAHNFSK 600
601 LFSMENWGGATFDVAMRFLYECPWRRLQELRELIPNIPFQMLLRGANAVG 650
651 YTNYPDNVVFKFCEVAKENGMDVFRVFDSLNYLPNMLLGMEAAGSAGGVV 700
701 EAAISYTGDVADPSRTKYSLQYYMGLAEELVRAGTHILCIKDMAGLLKPT 750
751 ACTMLVSSLRDRFPDLPLHIHTHDTSGAGVAAMLACAQAGADVVDVAADS 800
801 MSGMTSQPSMGALVACTRGTPLDTEVPMERVFDYSEYWEGARGLYAAFDC 850
851 TATMKSGNSDVYENEIPGGQYTNLHFQAHSMGLGSKFKEVKKAYVEANQM 900
901 LGDLIKVTPSSKIVGDLAQFMVQNGLSRAEAEAQAEELSFPRSVVEFLQG 950
951 YIGVPHGGFPEPFRSKVLKDLPRVEGRPGASLPPLDLQALEKELVDRHGE 1000
1001 EVTPEDVLSAAMYPDVFAHFKDFTATFGPLDSLNTRLFLQGPKIAEEFEV 1050
1051 ELERGKTLHIKALAVSDLNRAGQRQVFFELNGQLRSILVKDTQAMKEMHF 1100
1101 HPKALKDVKGQIGAPMPGKVIDIKVVAGAKVAKGQPLCVLSAMKMETVVT 1150
1151 SPMEGTVRKVHVTKDMTLEGDDLILEIE 1178

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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