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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.30 (see score help below)

   1  MDITESEFTIFEVTPDPNELNNKRIKEIKGGKVNIKELFRYAGVFEIILL    50
51 IIGIIGSIGVGCLNPLLMILTGDVVDTFVNGENFSKEGGSIKITTEEMNY 100
101 EIMNSISDTINKLVLKMLYFAIGNMVAGFLQTICFFVLSEYQGIKIRSLY 150
151 FKALLRQDPGWFDCHKTGELTSKIINDIQKIQDGMSLKFGRLFQTFSSFI 200
201 TGYLIGFIKCWDLTLVVLCMFPFIMVSMMGLGMSAGIFTMKSHKPFSEAC 250
251 SIAEQTIGNIRTVHSLTQERSFCESYNTKIMETDKYNIKKSIGIGTGLGC 300
301 MMFFIMSSNALGSWYGNFVVRGKGGSDNVKAGTVLTVFMSVLLATQSLSQ 350
351 ISTPINILNSAKVAAFNVYQTIDRIPDIDCQSIGGECPTECNGNIRFEDV 400
401 QFVYPTRLSHHVLKGLDLEIKKGQTIALVGASGCGKSTTIQLIQRNYDPN 450
451 GGRVTLDGKDIRELNIKWLRNQIGLVGQEPVLFAGTIRENIMLGAKEGAT 500
501 PSEEEMIECAKMANAHDFISKLPEGYDTIIGEKGALLSGGQKQRIAIARA 550
551 LIRNPSILLLDEATSALDTQSEKIVQEALEKASKGRTTIIVAHRLTTVRN 600
601 ADKICVFHQGEIIEQGKHQELMDLKGTYYGLVKRQSMEEEVDQETVENDL 650
651 KKFREQEDKEVENISLEQTNLHNENSIVKQIKQEYKEEQKKLKHSNRFVL 700
701 FRVIWNNYKHEYIFCTLGLIGGIGAGAAFPFYSLNFVDLIRVLMKLHPGI 750
751 NLTDEQANSILRSCMIIICIGIITMISFFCYVGLFMAAGEKMIGRIRRRF 800
801 YYSIMHQNVSWFDRRENMVGAVTTKLTSDPTSLQGISAERVGDIIEIMST 850
851 VGFGFGIGLYFSWKLSLCILAVFPIISFFMFINGQLNSKNAAPAKAAYEQ 900
901 CGVTLVEVVEAMKTVQSLGKEDYFSQKYNNDLQIPKRGIIKWGPLLSITN 950
951 AITNLLTFSINAYGYYLGICFMKKTINYQQDVPNFVDEIIDTFGDIQKAL 1000
1001 MTINSATTSFAQIGNVLPDVGKAVGAAKSIYNIIDRKPSIDCYSEEGETF 1050
1051 NDVKGEIEFKNIHFRYPTRADNEVLKGISFKAEQGKTIALVGASGCGKST 1100
1101 TIQLIERFYDPTSGEVLLDGHNIKDLNIHFLRNQIGLVGQEPVLFAESVI 1150
1151 DNIKRGVPEGVEVSNEQIYAAAKMANAHDFISAMPEGYNTMVGDRGSQLS 1200
1201 GGQKQRIAIARALIRNPKVLLLDEATSALDSESEKIVQDALDKASKGRTT 1250
1251 IVIAHRLSTIQNADKIYVIMRGKIVEQGKHQELIDLKGFYYTLAMQQFGT 1300
1301 VN 1302

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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