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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.94 (see score help below)

   1  MGVDFDVKTFCHNLRATKPPYECPVETCRKVYKSYSGIEYHLYHYDHDNP    50
51 PPPQQTPLRKHKKKGRQSRPANKQSPSPSEVSQSPGREVMSYAQAQRMVE 100
101 VDLHGRVHRISIFDNLDVVSEDEEAPEEAPENGSNKENTETPAATPKSGK 150
151 HKNKEKRKDSNHHHHHNVSASTTPKLPEVVYRELEQDTPDAPPRPTSYYR 200
201 YIEKSAEELDEEVEYDMDEEDYIWLDIMNERRKTEGVSPIPQEIFEYLMD 250
251 RLEKESYFESHNKGDPNALVDEDAVCCICNDGECQNSNVILFCDMCNLAV 300
301 HQECYGVPYIPEGQWLCRRCLQSPSRAVDCALCPNKGGAFKQTDDGRWAH 350
351 VVCALWIPEVCFANTVFLEPIDSIEHIPPARWKLTCYICKQRGSGACIQC 400
401 HKANCYTAFHVTCAQQAGLYMKMEPVRETGANGTSFSVRKTAYCDIHTPP 450
451 GSARRLPALSHSEGEEDEDEEEDEGKGWSSEKVKKAKAKSRIKMKKARKI 500
501 LAEKRAAAPVVSVPCIPPHRLSKITNRLTIQRKSQFMQRLHSYWTLKRQS 550
551 RNGVPLLRRLQTHLQSQRNCDQVGRDSEDKNWALKEQLKSWQRLRHDLER 600
601 ARLLVELIRKREKLKRETIKVQQIAMEMQLTPFLILLRKTLEQLQEKDTG 650
651 NIFSEPVPLSEVPDYLDHIKKPMDFFTMKQNLEAYRYLNFDDFEEDFNLI 700
701 VSNCLKYNAKDTIFYRAAVRLREQGGAVLRQARRQAEKMGIDFETGMHIP 750
751 HSLAGDEATHHTEDAAEEERLVLLENQKHLPVEEQLKLLLERLDEVNASK 800
801 QSVGRSRRAKMIKKEMTALRRKLAHQRETGRDGPERHGPSSRGSLTPHPA 850
851 ACDKDGQTDSAAEESSSQETSKGLGPNMSSTPAHEVGRRTSVLFSKKNPK 900
901 TAGPPKRPGRPPKNRESQMTPSHGGSPVGPPQLPIMSSLRQRKRGRSPRP 950
951 SSSSDSDSDKSTEDPPMDLPANGFSGGNQPVKKSFLVYRNDCSLPRSSSD 1000
1001 SESSSSSSSSAASDRTSTTPSKQGRGKPSFSRGTFPEDSSEDTSGTENEA 1050
1051 YSVGTGRGVGHSMVRKSLGRGAGWLSEDEDSPLDALDLVWAKCRGYPSYP 1100
1101 ALIIDPKMPREGMFHHGVPIPVPPLEVLKLGEQMTQEAREHLYLVLFFDN 1150
1151 KRTWQWLPRTKLVPLGVNQDLDKEKMLEGRKSNIRKSVQIAYHRALQHRS 1200
1201 KVQGEQSSETSDSD 1214

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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