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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.88 (see score help below)

   1  MKHIKNEREEVFLEDDQAQHSQAELLSSKDENLQPSIPLSPVAFELDFSG    50
51 NFQFISDNSSELLDIPKDKIIGHSVAEVLGTDGYNAFMRAVNCLLKDDSH 100
101 SYHVRFQHSINANHANQNYYTAKGDLPSDEKITKPFDAIGILIRHPGSAI 150
151 PAHTMWVVNPATNSLGSVSPLVTKLLDVIGFGASLLDKYLCDLRTSYHKH 200
201 NSLDALPLPTPEFCQICEREIQSWFFELHSKFCLSTSTYESVVQAAQDSL 250
251 LYFRSTLLEIQEGMQKDSSLVPVYKNEPLIVDADDYFFTDENKQTLSLCS 300
301 FLSQVMYYLEVAIDITIPPVKIIVNFDKVDSLRVQSPRSEKATIELDNYN 350
351 PSLENCSSAVIALWEDIKTAVDTKITGVLRLRNAIYYSERIRLEIDHHVQ 400
401 EIIDDVVSNLVTNHSSTSLGHLESKLAPSITFPDACDALEAEECITRPGS 450
451 ATNTPQSDRSLDINDLSRSSSYSRHLSHVSLSNPDFAIGSPMSQDSSNYS 500
501 SPLHRRKASDSNFSDPRFDDLKYLSPNSSPRFVASDGPNRPASNGRSSLF 550
551 SRGRASNLGDVGLRLPSPSPRIHTIVPNSAPEHPSINDYKILKPISKGAF 600
601 GSVYLAQKRTTGDYFAIKILKKSNMIAKNQVINVRAERAILMSQGESPFV 650
651 AKLYYTFQSKDYLYLVMEYLNGGDCGSLLKTMGVLDLDWIRTYIAETVLC 700
701 LGDLHDRGIIHRDIKPENLLISQNGHLKLTDFGLSRVGYMKRHRRKQSSS 750
751 IPVLDLRDRSSAISDLSLSTASSVLEAQSLITPERPKRPSLNEKLLSLDG 800
801 TSIRLAGQSFNYENSAEDSPTATNTPTSQVDESNIFRSTDSPRVQPFFEN 850
851 KDPSKRFIGTPDYIAPEVILGNPGIKASDWWSLGCVVFEFLFGYPPFNAE 900
901 TPDQVFQNILARRINWPAEVFTAESSVALDLIDRLLCMNPANRLGANGVE 950
951 EIKAHPFFKSVNWDTILEEDPPFVPKPFSPEDTVYFDSRGLKGFDFSEYY 1000
1001 NQPTVTEAQKLEEERPASSIPQHVSGNRKGRLRSNTISTPEFGSFTYRNL 1050
1051 DFLNKANRNTIQKLRKEHMAVKSAKTSVDDTFSQYMSRFKAKLSTSQSVG 1100
1101 PVKSSRRASMADYEASTTTRVQDITTDSIDSIDDFDSLKEGRMLSFFDNL 1150
1151 ALEDHKGVSSTMSASQSQSSMHTALPDVTEGTSSDEHTTIQKGRIDNLQA 1200
1201 QSLTHKRNAISYPGLFQLDRLQMIIPKDEIELAEILKKIFPKLTLVLIDD 1250
1251 PWSILKKLLQNEQFNVVFLHFGNDKVSSSRLMYSVRTSATINSRVPFVYI 1300
1301 CEDETCIPTDLQSDGVLLKPITCENIESCLRKLDVWHS 1338

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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