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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.13 (see score help below)

   1  MRQGGGGGERMVSVLFLLLIHLALCQAKCVMTECDGEEDSNHPPCKTNKS    50
51 TYLPITVTRSLNPTYMARFEKYCSYLVQEEDKAQVCCTELQLKGMTDRIS 100
101 NAATILGSCPSCFDNFAKLWCQFTCSPDQSKFMKVMETTGPKNVVVKMEF 150
151 KVNRDFVEGLYESCRHTWFANGLALRLMSLGGKVSFENFYGFMGTKNLAQ 200
201 SIPINTEFQFSRMKNAMNIPTTPCHKSAGPKVPACGAIDCPTNAHQLVDI 250
251 SKVEHLGTKVFHPHFPDFEWLLKICGCLALTVLLVFILKYSCHRRSAPNG 300
301 EDGCYVDLGKGNLEVQFEGLCARYANAVIKHPLIFVSLGLIVAAACCSGN 350
351 FKFHSLTHSVDQVSAADGETRRNEKKFIHSFGPNHRIEQIFINLPPTTKS 400
401 MFNMPLFEEMFQLVGNIQNLTACYGNSSVKLDDICYKPIGKNHGCAIMSP 450
451 TNYFQNKWTNFENAGPPTIDDEIFDDQHWEHLKYCIRNPLTVSTYSEMSC 500
501 FGEFSGPIDPILVFGGSNESIKGAEMYYTARTIMITVLIRGPEDQAIAWE 550
551 TAFLNMMSRYEMKHANFTFMTETSVAEEIHTAVETDKIVSVIACAAVLIW 600
601 VITMLGINHWPESSILSALVHHKLLISISAVMISVISVWCSIGMFSLFGV 650
651 HATDNAIVVLFFVITCLGINRIFVIIRTFQANGHCYGLPNISYREMNHRI 700
701 SNVMRRSIPIVLTNSLICSTCLFLAGGVLPYVSVSMPAVEVFARHAGLAI 750
751 LMDTAFYLLVMLPLFQYDARREMSGKCEIWPWYELSNESKINLCMEAVDG 800
801 NLRSPVDWFKLAIAPLLLKKICRIWIATFFFVSLIIACYCTLCLEFGFNQ 850
851 VMAFSETSYLTKHFQNMNENLNIGPPLWFVVEGDVKWHDPKMQNKFCTLA 900
901 GCDDNSMGNKIRSLAYAENYKGNYLHGDVNIWLDSYLQFMHPRGSCCKMD 950
951 GKQFCDPSNATHCSSCSSSSVASLTTTEYEFYRNLHHFLETPPSIQCAHG 1000
1001 GMALAKPAINLTRNGKIQSAYFSTFFKKLNLSDSIQLYDAWRFAKYLADD 1050
1051 IERELEIPGVKVYVYSTFFPYYEQYLTLSTTVYTLVVLVLFVAFVTISLF 1100
1101 LRVNLAGSLVTVFVLLSSYLHLMEWMYLLGITVNVVSVINMAMSLGIAVE 1150
1151 FFGQMLHGFYNSKKPKREERAFAALVSNGSTTLSGIFPAIMITAGCLSFA 1200
1201 DSRVLITYFCNQLVGIGLVCAVHGVVYMPTLLAIFGSDFYQNVSSEEEST 1250
1251 DEAELQDTPPSTTSSTSSTSETSV 1274

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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