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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.74 (see score help below)

   1  MMMDILNTQQQKAAEGGRVLAPHTISSKLVKRLSSHSSHKLSRSDLKALG    50
51 GSETISDGPSQLTFKDRYVFNESLYLKKLKKTALDDYYTRGIKLTNRYEE 100
101 DDGDDEIIRLSNGDRIDEDLHSGVKFFSTTPYCRKMRSDSDELAWNEIAT 150
151 ERFKWQSMLARVLKGDIVKGEKTRIANQVKKPGLNKELSDEIWLELKAWL 200
201 NGRTMQEMEQSLTYLRDSSDSVFEEIMKFQIPQGKILSLDALEAILQDLM 250
251 NRYHSVVSYWPNLKKMYKDKPITNTAEFTARIDVMNSWLNFKTNLTLRRQ 300
301 ELDDWINRFSPISSSDNCQEDFDGVPQWNCKMKILAEQLMKEKNIESIFQ 350
351 KKIFYPLSPWMFKLKLHFIVYRETLTKMNIKYPYERLRSLLAFPVYLIKE 400
401 VILTRLSYARKLKNPTMMMIDQMIDDFNAFIRLSVQLKYTLTKYCSNLPF 450
451 DVDFDPTFENTVIEAIRYLFFLLNLKLIDSSKQNFKAPDLLLKYWDHLKN 500
501 TGHYINGAETVIPNEFLKLTLRLVHKLQFYLLKQQNFPPTFANASEAEKW 550
551 LSSIFENLGAMKRKLNRFSNILVKAFQNSAVYQINHNAQLVKKLKDAHYF 600
601 LVYSGNTFESSGVYMFAAPELLGCDNDTILRILRNKSIGCDLVPKLDIGN 650
651 NLNVYDITTKETDLNILVSKGEDSKGIPYYRVVANSSSDLDRHAHQSKKK 700
701 NFSTDPFDQHLDEKNNEVFELEVALSSLGALVVLYPGEPVVWDGPVYKLP 750
751 GNNLFASNEMDLGKIGNPNTLILLNQGSNYALTYQIDKFNQTVGDSVSFI 800
801 EKRCSLNSIESSLQKINKAYYKLTYTVLNNYKGILGSFMKQCPGNELLNS 850
851 IFMFGRDFGRSFLKYNAFSSKRKYVIIFLMVKLGMNWLKFLVEECDPTDQ 900
901 RTFRWCVLAMDFAMQMTSGYNILALNVKQFQELKERVSVCMSLLISHFDV 950
951 MGARATEAENGMQQARLNIDTEENIDEEATLEINSRLRLEAIKTLEKTMK 1000
1001 RNPRQMGKVLDATDQGNKYLLSLASSLSNVSMRWQKRSFIGGGTFGQVYS 1050
1051 AINLENGEILAVKEIKIHDTTTMKKIFPLIKEEMTVLEMLNHPNIVQYYG 1100
1101 VEVHRDKVNIFMEYCEGGSLASLLDHGRIEDEMVTQVYTFELLEGLAYLH 1150
1151 QSGVVHRDIKPENILLDFNGIIKYVDFGTARTVVGSRTRTVRNAAVQDFG 1200
1201 VETKSLNEMMGTPMYMAPETISGSAVKGKLGADDVWALGCVVLEMATGRR 1250
1251 PWSNLDNEWAIMYHVAAGRIPQLPNRDEMTAAGRAFLERCLVQDPTMRAT 1300
1301 AVELLIDPWMIQIREIAFGNSEKDQVPILSS 1331

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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