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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.99 (see score help below)

   1  MEPSRALLGCLASAAAAAPPGEDGAGAGAEEEEEEEEEAAAAVGPGELGC    50
51 DAPLPYWTAVFEYEAAGEDELTLRLGDVVEVLSKDSQVSGDEGWWTGQLN 100
101 QRVGIFPSNYVTPRSAFSSRCQPGGEDPSCYPPIQLLEIDFAELTLEEII 150
151 GIGGFGKVYRAFWIGDEVAVKAARHDPDEDISQTIENVRQEAKLFAMLKH 200
201 PNIIALRGVCLKEPNLCLVMEFARGGPLNRVLSGKRIPPDILVNWAVQIA 250
251 RGMNYLHDEAIVPIIHRDLKSSNILILQKVENGDLSNKILKITDFGLARE 300
301 WHRTTKMSAAGTYAWMAPEVIRASMFSKGSDVWSYGVLLWELLTGEVPFR 350
351 GIDGLAVAYGVAMNKLALPIPSTCPEPFAKLMEDCWNPDPHSRPSFTNIL 400
401 DQLTTIEESGFFEMPKDSFHCLQDNWKHEIQEMFDQLRAKEKELRTWEEE 450
451 LTRAALQQKNQEELLRRREQELAEREIDILERELNIIIHQLCQEKPRVKK 500
501 RKGKFRKSRLKLKDGNRISLPSDFQHKFTVQASPTMDKRKSLINSRSSPP 550
551 ASPTIIPRLRAIQLTPGESSKTWGRSSVVPKEEGEEEEKRAPKKKGRTWG 600
601 PGTLGQKELASGDEGSPQRREKANGLSTPSESPHFHLGLKSLVDGYKQWS 650
651 SSAPNLVKGPRSSPALPGFTSLMEMEDEDSEGPGSGESRLQHSPSQSYLC 700
701 IPFPRGEDGDGPSSDGIHEEPTPVNSATSTPQLTPTNSLKRGGAHHRRCE 750
751 VALLGCGAVLAATGLGFDLLEAGKCQLLPLEEPEPPAREEKKRREGLFQR 800
801 SSRPRRSTSPPSRKLFKKEEPMLLLGDPSASLTLLSLSSISECNSTRSLL 850
851 RSDSDEIVVYEMPVSPVEAPPLSPCTHNPLVNVRVERFKRDPNQSLTPTH 900
901 VTLTTPSQPSSHRRTPSDGALKPETLLASRSPSSNGLSPSPGAGMLKTPS 950
951 PSRDPGEFPRLPDPNVVFPPTPRRWNTQQDSTLERPKTLEFLPRPRPSAN 1000
1001 RQRLDPWWFVSPSHARSTSPANSSSTETPSNLDSCFASSSSTVEERPGLP 1050
1051 ALLPFQAGPLPPTERTLLDLDAEGQSQDSTVPLCRAELNTHRPAPYEIQQ 1100
1101 EFWS 1104

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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