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 0.41 (see score help below)

   1  MERCSRCHRLLLLLPLVLGLSAAPGWAGAPPVDVLRALRFPSLPDGVRRA    50
51 KGICPADVAYRVARPAQLSAPTRQLFPGGFPKDFSLLTVVRTRPGLQAPL 100
101 LTLYSAQGVRQLGLELGRPVRFLYEDQTGRPQPPSQPVFRGLSLADGKWH 150
151 RVAVAVKGQSVTLIVDCKKRVTRPLPRSARPVLDTHGVIIFGARILDEEV 200
201 FEGDVQELAIVPGVQAAYESCEQKELECEGGQRERPQNQQPHRAQRSPQQ 250
251 QPSRLHRPQNQEPQSQPTESLYYDYEPPYYDVMTTGTTPDYQDPTPGEEE 300
301 EILESSLLPPLEEEQTDLQVPPTADRFQAEEYGEGGTDPPEGPYDYTYGY 350
351 GDDYREETELGPALSAETAHSGAAAHGPRGLKGEKGEPAVLEPGMLVEGP 400
401 PGPEGPAGLIGPPGIQGNPGPVGDPGERGPPGRAGLPGSDGAPGPPGTSL 450
451 MLPFRFGSGGGDKGPVVAAQEAQAQAILQQARLALRGPPGPMGYTGRPGP 500
501 LGQPGSPGLKGESGDLGPQGPRGPQGLTGPPGKAGRRGRAGADGARGMPG 550
551 DPGVKGDRGFDGLPGLPGEKGHRGDTGAQGLPGPPGEDGERGDDGEIGPR 600
601 GLPGESGPRGLLGPKGPPGIPGPPGVRGMDGPQGPKGSLGPQGEPGPPGQ 650
651 QGTPGTQGLPGPQGAIGPHGEKGPQGKPGLPGMPGSDGPPGHPGKEGPPG 700
701 TKGNQGPSGPQGPLGYPGPRGVKGVDGIRGLKGHKGEKGEDGFPGFKGDI 750
751 GVKGDRGEVGVPGSRGEDGPEGPKGRTGPTGDPGPPGLMGEKGKLGVPGL 800
801 PGYPGRQGPKGSLGFPGFPGASGEKGARGLSGKSGPRGERGPTGPRGQRG 850
851 PRGATGKSGAKGTSGGDGPHGPPGERGLPGPQGPNGFPGPKGPLGPPGKD 900
901 GLPGHPGQRGEVGFQGKTGPPGPPGVVGPQGAAGETGPMGERGHPGPPGP 950
951 PGEQGLPGTAGKEGTKGDPGPPGAPGKDGPAGLRGFPGERGLPGTAGGPG 1000
1001 LKGNEGPSGPPGPAGSPGERGAAGSGGPIGPPGRPGPQGPPGAAGEKGVP 1050
1051 GEKGPIGPTGRDGVQGPVGLPGPAGPPGVAGEDGDKGEVGDPGQKGTKGN 1100
1101 KGEHGPPGPPGPIGPVGQPGAAGADGEPGARGPQGHFGAKGDEGTRGFNG 1150
1151 PPGPIGLQGLPGPSGEKGETGDVGPMGPPGPPGPRGPAGPNGADGPQGPP 1200
1201 GGVGNLGPPGEKGEPGESGSPGIQGEPGVKGPRGERGEKGESGQPGEPGP 1250
1251 PGPKGPTGDDGPKGNPGPVGFPGDPGPPGEGGPRGQDGAKGDRGEDGEPG 1300
1301 QPGSPGPTGENGPPGPLGKRGPAGSPGSEGRQGGKGAKGDPGAIGAPGKT 1350
1351 GPVGPAGPAGKPGPDGLRGLPGSVGQQGRPGATGQAGPPGPVGPPGLPGL 1400
1401 RGDAGAKGEKGHPGLIGLIGPPGEQGEKGDRGLPGPQGSPGQKGEMGIPG 1450
1451 ASGPIGPGGPPGLPGPAGPKGAKGATGPGGPKGEKGVQGPPGHPGPPGEV 1500
1501 IQPLPIQMPKKTRRSVDGSRLMQEDEAIPTGGAPGSPGGLEEIFGSLDSL 1550
1551 REEIEQMRRPTGTQDSPARTCQDLKLCHPELPDGEYWVDPNQGCARDAFR 1600
1601 VFCNFTAGGETCVTPRDDVTQFSYVDSEGSPVGVVQLTFLRLLSVSAHQD 1650
1651 VSYPCSGAARDGPLRLRGANEDELSPETSPYVKEFRDGCQTQQGRTVLEV 1700
1701 RTPVLEQLPVLDASFSDLGAPPRRGGVLLGPVCFMG 1736

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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