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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.49 (see score help below)

   1  MEPWSSRWKTKRWLWDFTVTTLALTFLFQAREVRGAAPVDVLKALDFHNS    50
51 PEGISKTTGFCTNRKNSKGSDTAYRVSKQAQLSAPTKQLFPGGTFPEDFS 100
101 ILFTVKPKKGIQSFLLSIYNEHGIQQIGVEVGRSPVFLFEDHTGKPAPED 150
151 YPLFRTVNIADGKWHRVAISVEKKTVTMIVDCKKKTTKPLDRSERAIVDT 200
201 NGITVFGTRILDEEVFEGDIQQFLITGDPKAAYDYCEHYSPDCDSSAPKA 250
251 AQAQEPQIDEYAPEDIIEYDYEYGEAEYKEAESVTEGPTVTEETIAQTEA 300
301 NIVDDFQEYNYGTMESYQTEAPRHVSGTNEPNPVEEIFTEEYLTGEDYDS 350
351 QRKNSEDTLYENKEIDGRDSDLLVDGDLGEYDFYEYKEYEDKPTSPPNEE 400
401 FGPGVPAETDITETSINGHGAYGEKGQKGEPAVVEPGMLVEGPPGPAGPA 450
451 GIMGPPGLQGPTGPPGDPGDRGPPGRPGLPGADGLPGPPGTMLMLPFRYG 500
501 GDGSKGPTISAQEAQAQAILQQARIALRGPPGPMGLTGRPGPVGGPGSSG 550
551 AKGESGDPGPQGPRGVQGPPGPTGKPGKRGRPGADGGRGMPGEPGAKGDR 600
601 GFDGLPGLPGDKGHRGERGPQGPPGPPGDDGMRGEDGEIGPRGLPGEAGP 650
651 RGLLGPRGTPGAPGQPGMAGVDGPPGPKGNMGPQGEPGPPGQQGNPGPQG 700
701 LPGPQGPIGPPGEKGPQGKPGLAGLPGADGPPGHPGKEGQSGEKGALGPP 750
751 GPQGPIGYPGPRGVKGADGVRGLKGSKGEKGEDGFPGFKGDMGLKGDRGE 800
801 VGQIGPRGEDGPEGPKGRAGPTGDPGPSGQAGEKGKLGVPGLPGYPGRQG 850
851 PKGSTGFPGFPGANGEKGARGVAGKPGPRGQRGPTGPRGSRGARGPTGKP 900
901 GPKGTSGGDGPPGPPGERGPQGPQGPVGFPGPKGPPGPPGKDGLPGHPGQ 950
951 RGETGFQGKTGPPGPGGVVGPQGPTGETGPIGERGHPGPPGPPGEQGLPG 1000
1001 AAGKEGAKGDPGPQGISGKDGPAGLRGFPGERGLPGAQGAPGLKGGEGPQ 1050
1051 GPPGPVGSPGERGSAGTAGPIGLPGRPGPQGPPGPAGEKGAPGEKGPQGP 1100
1101 AGRDGVQGPVGLPGPAGPAGSPGEDGDKGEIGEPGQKGSKGDKGENGPPG 1150
1151 PPGLQGPVGAPGIAGGDGEPGPRGQQGMFGQKGDEGARGFPGPPGPIGLQ 1200
1201 GLPGPPGEKGENGDVGPMGPPGPPGPRGPQGPNGADGPQGPPGSVGSVGG 1250
1251 VGEKGEPGEAGNPGPPGEAGVGGPKGERGEKGEAGPPGAAGPPGAKGPPG 1300
1301 DDGPKGNPGPVGFPGDPGPPGEPGPAGQDGVGGDKGEDGDPGQPGPPGPS 1350
1351 GEAGPPGPPGKRGPPGAAGAEGRQGEKGAKGEAGAEGPPGKTGPVGPQGP 1400
1401 AGKPGPEGLRGIPGPVGEQGLPGAAGQDGPPGPMGPPGLPGLKGDPGSKG 1450
1451 EKGHPGLIGLIGPPGEQGEKGDRGLPGTQGSPGAKGDGGIPGPAGPLGPP 1500
1501 GPPGLPGPQGPKGNKGSTGPAGQKGDSGLPGPPGSPGPPGEVIQPLPILS 1550
1551 SKKTRRHTEGMQADADDNILDYSDGMEEIFGSLNSLKQDIEHMKFPMGTQ 1600
1601 TNPARTCKDLQLSHPDFPDGEYWIDPNQGCSGDSFKVYCNFTSGGETCIY 1650
1651 PDKKSEGVRISSWPKEKPGSWFSEFKRGKLLSYLDVEGNSINMVQMTFLK 1700
1701 LLTASARQNFTYHCHQSAAWYDVSSGSYDKALRFLGSNDEEMSYDNNPFI 1750
1751 KTLYDGCASRKGYEKTVIEINTPKIDQVPIVDVMINDFGDQNQKFGFEVG 1800
1801 PVCFLG 1806

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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