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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.70 (see score help below)

   1  MARPIFPNQQKIAEKLIILNDRGLGILTRIYNIKKACGDTKSKPGFLSEK    50
  51  SLESSIKFIVKRFPNIDVKGLNAIVNIKAEIIKSLSLYYHTFVDLLDFKD   100
 101  NVCELLTTMDACQIHLDITLNFELTKYYLDLVVTYVSLMIVLSRVEDRKA   150
 151  VLGLYNAAYELQNNQADTGFPRLGQMILDYEVPLKKLAEEFIPHQRLLTS   200
 201  ALRSLTSIYALRNLPADKWREMQKLSLVGNPAILLKAVRTDTMSCEYISL   250
 251  EAMDRWIIFGLLLNHQMLGQYPEVNKIWLSALESSWVVALFRDEVLQIHQ   300
 301  YIQATFDGIKGYSKRIGEVKEAYNTAVQKAALMHRERRKFLRTALKELAL   350
 351  IMTDQPGLLGPKAIFIFIGLCLARDEILWLLRHNDNPPLLKNKGKSNEDL   400
 401  VDRQLPELLFHMEELRALVRKYSQVMQRYYVQYLSGFDATDLNIRMQSLQ   450
 451  MCPEDESIIFSSLYNTAAALTVKQVEDNELFYFRPFRLDWFRLQTYMSVG   500
 501  KAALRIAEHAELARLLDSMVFHTRVVDNLDEILVETSDLSIFCFYNKMFD   550
 551  DQFHMCLEFPAQNRYIIAFPLICSHFQNCTHEMCPEERHHIRERSLSVVN   600
 601  IFLEEMAKEAKNIITTICDEQCTMADALLPKHCAKILSVQSARKKKDKSK   650
 651  SKHFDDIRKPGDESYRKTREDLTTMDKLHMALTELCFAINYCPTVNVWEF   700
 701  AFAPREYLCQNLEHRFSRDLVGMVMFNQETMEIAKPSELLASVRAYMNVL   750
 751  QTVENYVHIDITRVFNNCLLQQTQALDSHGEKTIAALYNTWYSEVLLRRV   800
 801  SAGNIVFSINQKAFVPISPEGWVPFNPQEFSDLNELRALAELVGPYGIKT   850
 851  LNETLMWHIANQVQELKSLVSTNKEVLITLRTSFDKPEVMKEQFKRLQDV   900
 901  DRVLQRMTIIGVIICFRNLVHEALVDVLDKRIPFLLSSVKDFQEHLPGGD   950
 951  QIRVASEMASAAGLLCKVDPTLATTLKSKKPEFDEGEHLTACLLMVFVAV  1000
1001  SIPKLARNENSFYRATIDGHSNNTHCMAAAINNIFGALFTICGQSDMEDR  1050
1051  MKEFLALASSSLLRLGQESDKEATRNRESIYLLLDEIVKQSPFLTMDLLE  1100
1101  SCFPYVLIRNAYHGVYKQEQILGLAL                          1126

Positively and negatively influencing subsequences are coloured according to the following scale:

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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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