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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.48 (see score help below)

   1  MSNFRDSSSPRRGYSEFDPESGEGLGRKKSLIRPERSRMDESHPRFHYTQ    50
51 VANQESNHIKVQPSSTGVDPRKSNELSTSRSHLSNYATPPHQEEEEDEGI 100
101 PLMDIHNASPNVSSDQNNDLKGGREVYGLNDEINDYGSSPKKNQVISSSR 150
151 PMNNEKPAKPKHDIYFWKVYCYAITFWAPAPLLKLFGLPTKDRQFAWREK 200
201 IGLISCILYVGAFVAYLTFGFTKTVCSSQVVRTQINHVNGGYLIINGRAY 250
251 DLTSSQHPKAAGIQAGSNVLYPPMNAGGKDASFLFQNVNGNCKGLIKPRD 300
301 NCSIPYDGDELAWYMPCRLFNQDGSTKPNNTFAYYKGWACHTSETARDAY 350
351 YKLKVNGDVYFTWDDVKNSSRNLVVYSGNVLDLDLINWIETDDVTYPELF 400
401 DKLRDDETYRGLDISLVLTNSEERQAARCLTEIIKVGSIDTDTIGCIASK 450
451 VVLYMSLVFILSVVVVKFIMACWFKWVTSRKQGATMYDSKAWAKRNREIE 500
501 DWVDHDHGIGAEVKTVPVKARANYKAAKTNRQSVFHRAQKLSLGPNADLS 550
551 QYYDNPNALSKTFKYTTMSTQAALLGRNGYGKRGNNANKSVSGGFNGRQS 600
601 NLYLTDQGSSTDLLNRPVSSYNPFDSMGDDSIVINGLSPDIIHPDVVPQP 650
651 PVEYQPFGYPLAHTINLVTCYSEDEEGIRITLDSIATTDYPNSHKLILVI 700
701 CDGIIKGSGNDETTPDIVLDMMSDLTVPRDEVEAYSYVAVAQGSKRHNMA 750
751 KVYAGFYKYNDETVPPEKQQRIPMITIVKCGTPEEASAPKPGNRGKRDSQ 800
801 IILMSFLQKVVFDERMTSLEYEMLQSIWRITGLMAEFYEIVLMVDADTKV 850
851 FPDSLTHMVAEMVKDPTIMGLCGETKISNKAQTWVTAIQVFEYYISHHQA 900
901 KAFESIFGGVTCLPGCFCMYRIKAPKGSDGYWVPILANPDIVERYSDNVV 950
951 DTLHRKNLLLLGEDRYLSSLMLRTFPTRKQVFVPKAACKTVVPDKFKVLL 1000
1001 SQRRRWINSTVHNLFELVLVKDLCGTFCFSMQFVIFIELIGTLVLPAAIT 1050
1051 FTIYVIIVAIVSKPTPVMSLVLLAVIFGLPGCLIVITVSSLSYLVYFVIY 1100
1101 LFALPIWNFVLPSYAYWKFDDFSWGETRTVAGGDKGDHSAVEGKFDSSKI 1150
1151 AMKRWREWERERRSTENRKQQQQQQLTNNSSNNLAVPGAAWDPSNTGGNL 1200
1201 IDDLSQGSSSGSS 1213

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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