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 0.85 (see score help below)

   1  MKTRQNKDSMSMRSGRKKEAPGPREELRSRGRASPGGVSTSSSDGKAEKS    50
51 RQTAKKARVEETSTPKANKQGRSEEISESESEETSAPKKTKTEELPRPQS 100
101 PSDLDSLDGRSINDDGSSDPRDIDQDNRSTSPSIYSPGSVENDSDSSSGL 150
151 SQGPARPYHPPPLFPPSPPPPDSIPRQPESGFEPHPSVPPTGYHAPMEPP 200
201 TSRLFQGPPPGAPPPHPQLYPGSAGGGVLSGPPMGPKGGAAASSVGPPSG 250
251 GKQHPPPTTPIPISSSGASGAPPAKPPNTPVGAGNLPSAPPPATFPHVTP 300
301 NLPPPPALRPLNNASASPPGMGAQPIPGHLPSPHAMGQGMSGLPPGPEKG 350
351 PTLAPSPHPLPPASSSAPGPPMRYPYSSCSSSSVAASSSSSAATSQYPAS 400
401 QTLPSYPHSFPPPTSMSVSNQPPKYTQPSLPSQAVWSQGPPPPPPPYGRL 450
451 LPNNNTHPGPFPPTGGQSTAHPPAPAHHHHQQQQQPQPQPQPQQHHHGNS 500
501 GPPPPGAYPHPLESSNSHHAHPYNMSPSLGSLRPYPPGPAHLPPSHGQVS 550
551 YSQAGPNGPPVSSSSNSSGSSSQAAYSCSHPSSSQGPQGASYPFPPVPPI 600
601 TTSSATLSTVIATVASSPAGYKTASPPGPPQYSKRAPSPGSYKTATPPGY 650
651 KPGSPPSFRTGTPPGYRGTSPPAGPGTFKPGSPTVGPGPLPPAGPSSLSS 700
701 LPPPPAAPTTGPPLTATQIKQEPAEEYETPESPVPPARSPSPPPKVVDVP 750
751 SHASQSARFNKHLDRGFNSCARSDLYFVPLEGSKLAKKRADLVEKVRREA 800
801 EQRAREEKEREREREREKEREREKERELERSVKLAQEGRAPVECPSLGPV 850
851 PHRPPFEPGSAVATVPPYLGPDTPALRTLSEYARPHVMSPGNRNHPFYVP 900
901 LGAVDPGLLGYNVPALYSSDPAAREREREARERDLRDRLKPGFEVKPSEL 950
951 EPLHGVPGPGLDPFPRHGGLALQPGPPGLHPFPFHPSLGPLERERLALAA 1000
1001 GPALRPDMSYAERLAAERQHAERVAALGNDPLARLQMLNVTPHHHQHSHI 1050
1051 HSHLHLHQQDAIHAASASVHPLIDPLASGSHLTRIPYPAGTLPNPLLPHP 1100
1101 LHENEVLRHQLFAAPYRDLPASLSAPMSAAHQLQAMHAQSAELQRLALEQ 1150
1151 QQWLHAHHPLHSVPLPAQEDYYSHLKKESDKPL 1183

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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