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 0.40 (see score help below)

   1  MSWFSGLLVPKVDERKTAWGERNGQKRPRRGTRTSGFCTPRYMSCLRDAQ    50
51 PPSPTPAAPPRCPWQDEAFIRRGGPGKGTELGLRAVALGFEDTEAMSAVG 100
101 AAGGGPDVTPGSRRSCWRRLAQVFQSKQFRSAKLERLYQRYFFQMNQSSL 150
151 TLLMAVLVLLTAVLLAFHAAPARPQPAYVALLACAATLFVALMVVCNRHS 200
201 FRQDSMWVVSYVVLGILAAVQVGGALAANPRSPSVGLWCPVFFVYITYTL 250
251 LPIRMRAAVFSGLGLSTLHLILAWQLNRGDAFLWKQLGANMLLFLCTNVI 300
301 GICTHYPAEVSQRQAFQETRGYIQARLHLPDENRQQERLLLSVLPQHVAM 350
351 EMKEDINTKKEDMMFHKIYIQKHDNVSILFADIEGFTSLASQCTAQELVM 400
401 TLNELFARFDKLAAENHCLRIKILGDCYYCVSGLPEARADHAHCCVEMGV 450
451 DMIEAISLVREVTGVNVNMRVGIHSGRVHCGVLGLRKWQFDVWSNDVTLA 500
501 NHMEAARAGRIHITRATLQYLNGDYEVEPGRGGERNAYLKEQHIETFLIL 550
551 GASQKRKEEKAMLAKLQRTRANSMEGLMPRWVPDRAFSRTKDSKAFRQMG 600
601 IDDSSKDNRGAQDALNPEDEVDEFLGRAIDARSIDQLRKDHVRRFLLTFQ 650
651 REDLEKKYSRKVDPRFGAYVACALLVFCFICFIQLLVFPHSTVMLGIYAS 700
701 IFVLLLITVLTCAVYSCGSLFPKALRRLSRSIVRSRAHSTVVGIFSVLLV 750
751 FTSAIANMFTCNHTPIRTCAARMLNVTPADITACHLQQLNYSLGLDAPLC 800
801 EGTAPTCSFPEYFVGNMLLSLLASSVFLHISSIGKLAMIFVLGLIYLVLL 850
851 LLGPPSTIFDNYDLLLGVHGLASSNDTFDGLDCPAAGRVALKYMTPVILL 900
901 VFALALYLHAQQVESTARLDFLWKLQATGEKEEMEELQAYNRRLLHNILP 950
951 KDVAAHFLARERRNDELYYQSCECVAVMFASIANFSEFYVELEANNEGVE 1000
1001 CLRLLNEIIADFDEIISEERFRQLEKIKTIGSTYMAASGLNASTYDQAGR 1050
1051 SHITALADYAMRLMEQMKHINEHSFNNFQMKIGLNMGPVVAGVIGARKPQ 1100
1101 YDIWGNTVNVSSRMDSTGVPDRIQVTTDLYQVLAAKRYQLECRGVVKVKG 1150
1151 KGEMTTYFLNGGPPS 1165

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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