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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.25 (see score help below)

   1  MSALPEEVNRTLLQIVQAFASPDNQIRSVAEKALSEEWITENNIEYLLTF    50
  51  LAEQAAFSQDTTVAALSAVLFRKLALKAPPSSKLMIMSKNITHIRKEVLA   100
 101  QIRSSLLKGFLSERADSIRHKLSDAIAECVQDDLPAWPELLQALIESLKS   150
 151  GNPNFRESSFRILTTVPYLITAVDINSILPIFQSGFTDASDNVKIAAVTA   200
 201  FVGYFKQLPKSEWSKLGILLPSLLNSLPRFLDDGKDDALASVFESLIELV   250
 251  ELAPKLFKDMFDQIIQFTDMVIKNKDLEPPARTTALELLTVFSENAPQMC   300
 301  KSNQNYGQTLVMVTLIMMTEVSIDDDDAAEWIESDDTDDEEEVTYDHARQ   350
 351  ALDRVALKLGGEYLAAPLFQYLQQMITSTEWRERFAAMMALSSAAEGCAD   400
 401  VLIGEIPKILDMVIPLINDPHPRVQYGCCNVLGQISTDFSPFIQRTAHDR   450
 451  ILPALISKLTSECTSRVQTHAAAALVNFSEFASKDILEPYLDSLLTNLLV   500
 501  LLQSNKLYVQEQALTTIAFIAEAAKNKFIKYYDTLMPLLLNVLKVNNKDN   550
 551  SVLKGKCMECATLIGFAVGKEKFHEHSQELISILVALQNSDIDEDDALRS   600
 601  YLEQSWSRICRILGDDFVPLLPIVIPPLLITAKATQDVGLIEEEEAANFQ   650
 651  QYPDWDVVQVQGKHIAIHTSVLDDKVSAMELLQSYATLLRGQFAVYVKEV   700
 701  MEEIALPSLDFYLHDGVRAAGATLIPILLSCLLAATGTQNEELVLLWHKA   750
 751  SSKLIGGLMSEPMPEITQVYHNSLVNGIKVMGDNCLSEDQLAAFTKGVSA   800
 801  NLTDTYERMQDRHGDGDEYNENIDEEEDFTDEDLLDEINKSIAAVLKTTN   850
 851  GHYLKNLENIWPMINTFLLDNEPILVIFALVVIGDLIQYGGEQTASMKNA   900
 901  FIPKVTECLISPDARIRQAASYIIGVCAQYAPSTYADVCIPTLDTLVQIV   950
 951  DFPGSKLEENRSSTENASAAIAKILYAYNSNIPNVDTYTANWFKTLPTIT  1000
1001  DKEAASFNYQFLSQLIENNSPIVCAQSNISAVVDSVIQALNERSLTEREG  1050
1051  QTVISSVKKLLGFLPSSDAMAIFNRYPADIMEKVHKWFA             1089

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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