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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.77 (see score help below)

   1  MANGVIPPPGGASPLPQVRVPLEEPPLGPDVEEEDDDLGKTLAVSRFGDL    50
51 ISKTPAWDPEKPSRSYSERDFEFHRHTSHHTHHPLSARLPPPHKLRRPPP 100
101 TSARHTRRKRKKEKTSAPPSEGTPPIQEEGGAGAEEEEEEEEEEEGESEA 150
151 EPVEPLPPGPPQKAKFSIGSDEDDSPGLPVKAPCAKALPSVGLQSDQSPQ 200
201 RSGSSPSPRARASRISTEKSRPWSPSASYDLRERLCPGSALGNPGPEQRV 250
251 PTDEAEAQMLGSADLDDMKSHRLEDNPGVRRHLVKKPSRIQGGRGSPSGL 300
301 APILRRKKKKKKLDRRPHEVFVELNELMLDRSQEPHWRETARWIKFEEDV 350
351 EEETERWGKPHVASLSFRSLLELRRTIAQGAALLDLEQTTLPGIAHLVVE 400
401 TMIVSDQIRPEDRASVLRTLLLKHSHPNDDKDSGFFPRNPSSSSVNSVLG 450
451 NHHPTPSHGPDGAVPTMADDQGEPAPLWPHDPDAKEKPLHMPGGDGHRGK 500
501 SLKLLEKIPEDAEATVVLVGCVPFLEQPAAAFVRLSEAVLLESVLEVPVP 550
551 VRFLFVMLGPSHTSTDYHELGRSIATLMSDKLFHEAAYQADDRQDLLGAI 600
601 SEFLDGSIVIPPSEVEGRDLLRSVAAFQRELLRKRREREQTKVEMTTRGG 650
651 YAAPGKELSLEMGGSEATSEDDPLQRTGSVFGGLVRDVKRRYPHYPSDLR 700
701 DALHSQCVAAVLFIYFAALSPAITFGGLLGEKTEGLMGVSELIVSTAVLG 750
751 VLFSLLGAQPLLVVGFSGPLLVFEEAFFKFCRAQDLEYLTGRVWVGLWLV 800
801 VFVLALVAAEGSFLVRYISPFTQEIFAFLISLIFIYETFHKLYKVFTEHP 850
851 LLPFYPPDEALETGLELNSSALPPTEGPPGPRNQPNTALLSLILMLGTFL 900
901 IAFFLRKFRNSRFLGGKARRIIGDFGIPISILVMVLVDYSITDTYTQKLT 950
951 VPTGLSVTSPHKRTWFIPPLGSARPFPPWMMVAAAVPALLVLILIFMETQ 1000
1001 ITALIVSQKARRLLKGSGFHLDLLLIGSLGGLCGLFGLPWLTAATVRSVT 1050
1051 HVNALTVMRTAIAPGDKPQIQEVREQRVTGVLIASLVGLSIVMGAVLRRI 1100
1101 PLAVLFGIFLYMGVTSLSGIQLSQRLLLIFMPAKHHPEQPYVTKVKTWRM 1150
1151 HLFTCIQLGCIALLWVVKSTAASLAFPFLLLLTVPLRRCLLPRLFQDREL 1200
1201 QALDSEDAEPNFDEDGQDEYNELHMPV 1227

Positively and negatively influencing subsequences are coloured according to the following scale:

(non-nuclear) negative ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| positive (nuclear)

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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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