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NucPred

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

   1  MTSLLGLAVRLLLFQPTLMFWASQVRQKCHNGTYEISVLMMDNSAYKEPL    50
51 QNLRDAVEEGLDIVRKRLREAELNVTVNATFIYSDGLIHKSGDCRSSTCE 100
101 GLDLLREITRDRKMGCVLMGPSCTYSTFQMYLDTELNYPMISAGSFGLSC 150
151 DYKETLTRILPPARKLMYFLVDFWKVNNAPFKTFSWNSSYVYKNGSEPED 200
201 CFWYLNALEAGVSYFSEVLSFKDVLRRSEQFQEILMGRNRKSNVIVMCGT 250
251 PETFYNVKGDLKVADDTVVILVDLFSNHYFEDDTRAPEYMDNVLVLTLPP 300
301 EKFIANASVSGRFPSERSDFSLAYLEGTLLFGHMLQTFLENGESVTTPKF 350
351 ARAFRNLTFQGLEGPVTLDDSGDIDNIMCLLYVSLDTRKYKVLMAYDTHK 400
401 NQTIPVATSPNFIWKNHRLPNDVPGLGPQILMIAVFTLTGIVVVLLLIAL 450
451 LVLRKYRRDHELRQKKWSHIPSENIFPLETNETNHVSLKIDDDRRRDTIQ 500
501 RVRQCKYDKKKVILKDLKHCDGNFSEKQKIELNKLLQSDYYNLTKFYGTV 550
551 KLDTRIFGVVEYCERGSLREVLNDTISYPDGTFMDWEFKISVLNDIAKGM 600
601 SYLHSSKIEVHGRLKSTNCVVDSRMVVKITDFGCNSILPPKKDLWTAPEH 650
651 LRQATISQKGDVYSFSIIAQEIILRKETFYTLSCRDQNEKIFRVENSYGT 700
701 KPFRPDLFLETADEKELEVYLLVKSCWEEDPEKRPDFKKIESTLAKIFGL 750
751 FHDQKNESYMDTLIRRLQLYSRNLEHLVEERTQLYKAERDRADHLNFMLL 800
801 PRLVVKSLKEKGIVEPELYEEVTIYFSDIVGFTTICKYSTPMEVVDMLND 850
851 IYKSFDQIVDHHDVYKVETIGDAYVVASGLPMRNGNRHAVDISKMALDIL 900
901 SFMGTFELEHLPGLPVWIRIGVHSGPCAAGVVGIKMPRYCLFGDTVNTAS 950
951 RMESTGLPLRIHMSSSTIAILRRTDCQFLYEVRGETYLKGRGTETTYWLT 1000
1001 GMKDQEYNLPTPPTVENQQRLQTEFSDMIVSALQKRQASGVKSRRPTRVA 1050
1051 SYKKGFLEYMQLNNSDHDSTYF 1072

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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