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 0.66 (see score help below)

   1  MKTNAKFDRKEISKIYKNIARHHIDSFDFAMSTCLNRACEHMLPFDYIVP    50
51 EESASCGFKKLTLWYDSFELGQPSLGEIDYDSHILYPSECRQRKMTYTIP 100
101 LFATIFKKFDDEMVDNFKVKLGDIPTMGRKKFCNLKGLTKKELAKRGEDM 150
151 LEFGGYFIVNGNEKVIRMLIVPKRNFPIAFKRSKFLERGKDFTDYGVQMR 200
201 CVRDDFTAQTITLTYLSDGSVSLRLIYQKQEFLIPIILILKALKNCTDRQ 250
251 IYERIVKGNFNQRQISDRVEAILAVGKDLNIYDSDQSKALIGSRFRIVLA 300
301 GITSETSDIDAGDLFLSKHICIHTDSYEAKFDTLILMIDKLYASVANEVE 350
351 LDNLDSVAMQDVLLGGHLYLQILSEKLFDCLHINLRARLNKELKRHNFDP 400
401 MKFRDVLTNQKINCGIGLIGKRMENFLATGNLISRTNLDLMQTSGFCIIG 450
451 DKLNNIRFLSHFRSIHRGQYFAEQKTTSVRKLLPESWGFICPVHTPDGAP 500
501 CGLLNHISMSCVPIGSEEKQIDIDKFRNILGELGMNSISSDLCLNYHTGY 550
551 YPVIFDGIHLGYVEKDIGESFVEGLRYLKCTQSQPDYAIPRTLEIAFIPF 600
601 SGYSRNLQWPGIFLASTPARFTRPVKNLHYNCIEWISPLEQMNLSIACTD 650
651 EDITPETTHQELDPINILSIVASVGVFAEYNQSPRNMYQCQMAKQTMGTP 700
701 YHNHQFRTDNKIYRLLFPHRPIVKTRTQVDFDIEEYPSGTNAVVAVISYT 750
751 GYDLEDAMIINKSSYERGFGHGVVYKSYTHDLNESNSQSTRGIKSSVRYK 800
801 FLNNVSQKDKSKIKLENIDPDGLPKIGSQLTKGKPELCIFDTLKRGAKLS 850
851 KFKDSEKARIETVRVCGNDDKNPDNLSIGYTIRYSRIPVIGDKFSSRHGQ 900
901 KGVLSVLWPQVDMPFTENGITPDLIINPHAFPSRMTMGMLIQSMAAKSGS 950
951 LRGEFKTVETFQRYDDNDIVGHFGKELLDKGFNYHGNELMYSGIFGTPLK 1000
1001 ADIFIGVVYYQRLRHMVSDKSQARGTGPIDILTHQPVKGRKKGGGIRFGE 1050
1051 MERDSLLAHGAAYCLNDRLFRSSDYSEGFVCQNCGSILSCYVNRAIMKTQ 1100
1101 TFIPPSLDESNKDTEDKEIHMNEKVICKVCKKNSNCKKVALPFVLRFLAN 1150
1151 ELASMGIKLKFTVNDF 1166

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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