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 0.97 (see score help below)

   1  MAGARPGVHALQLEPPTVVETLRRGSKFIKWDEEASSRNLVTLRVDPNGF    50
51 FLYWTGPNMEVDTLDISSIRDTRTGRYARLPKDPKIREVLGFGGPDTRLE 100
101 EKLMTVVAGPDPVNTTFLNFMAVQDDTVKVWSEELFKLAMNILAQNASRN 150
151 TFLRKAYTKLKLQVNQDGRIPVKNILKMFSADKKRVETALESCGLNFNRS 200
201 ESIRPDEFPLEIFERFLNKLCLRPDIDKILLEIGAKGKPYLTLEQLMDFI 250
251 NQKQRDPRLNEVLYPPLRSSQARLLIEKYETNKQFLERDQMSMEGFSRYL 300
301 GGEENGILPLEALDLSMDMTQPLSAYFINSSHNTYLTAGQLAGPSSVEMY 350
351 RQALLWGCRCVELDVWKGRPPEEEPFITHGFTMTTEVPLRDVLEAIAEAA 400
401 FKTSPYPVILSFENHVDSAKQQAKMAEYCRSIFGDALLIDPLDKYPLSAG 450
451 IPLPSPQDLMGRILVKNKKRHRPSTGVPDSSVRKRPLEQSNSALSESSAA 500
501 TEPSSPQLGSPSSDSCPGLSNGEEVGLEKTSLEPQKSLGEESLSREPNVP 550
551 MPDRDREDEEEDEEEEETTDPKKPTTDEGTASSEVNATEEMSTLVNYVEP 600
601 VKFKSFEAARKRNKCFEMSSFVETKAMEQLTKSPMEFVEYNKQQLSRIYP 650
651 KGTRVDSSNYMPQLFWNVGCQLVALNFQTLDLPMQLNAGVFEYNGRSGYL 700
701 LKPEFMRRPDKSFDPFTEVIVDGIVANALRVKVISGQFLSDKKVGIYVEV 750
751 DMFGLPVDTRRKYRTRTSQGNSFNPVWDEEPFDFPKVVLPTLASLRIAAF 800
801 EEGGKFVGHRILPVSAIRSGYHYVCLRNEANQPLCLPALLIYTEASDYIP 850
851 DDHQDYAEALINPIKHVSLMDQRAKQLAALIGESEAQASTETYQETPCQQ 900
901 PGSQLPSNPTPNPLDASPRWPPGPTTSSTSSSLSSPGQRDDLIASILSEV 950
951 TPTPLEELRSHKAMVKLRSRQDRDLRELHKKHQRKAVALTRRLLDGLAQA 1000
1001 RAEGKCRPSPSALGKATNSEDVKEEEEAKQYREFQNRQVQSLLELREAQA 1050
1051 DVETKRKLEHLRQAHQRLKEVVLDTHTTQFKRLKELNEREKKELQKILDR 1100
1101 KRNNSISEAKTREKHKKEVELTEINRRHITESVNSIRRLEEAQKQRHERL 1150
1151 VAGQQQVLQQLEEEEPKLLAQLTQECQEQRERLPQEIRRCLLGETAEGLG 1200
1201 DGPLVACASNGHAPGSGGHLSSADSESQEENTQL 1234

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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