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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.65 (see score help below)

   1  MESMPSFLKDTPAWEKTAPVNGIVGQEPGTSPQDGLHHGALCLGEPVPFW    50
51 RGVLSAPDSWLPPGFLQGPKDTLSVVEGEGSRNGERKANWLGSKEGLRWK 100
101 EAMLAHPLAFCGPACPPRYGPLIPEHSSGHPKSDPVAFRPLHCPFLLETK 150
151 ILERAPFWVPTCLPPYLMSSLPPERSYDWPLAPSPWVYSGSQPKVPSAFS 200
201 LGSKGFYHKDPNILRPAKEPLAASESGMLGLAPGGHLQQACDAEGPSLHQ 250
251 RDGETGAGRQQNLCPVFLGYPDTVPRTPWPSCPPGLVHTLGNVWAGPGSN 300
301 SFGYQLGPPVTPRCPSPGPPTPPGGCCSSHLPAREGDPGPCRKCQDSPEG 350
351 SSSGPGESSEERNKAGSRASPPSHHTKLKKTWLTRHSEQFECPGGCPGKG 400
401 ESPATGLRALKRAGSPEVQGARGPAPKRPSHTFPGTGRQGARAWQETPET 450
451 STGSKAEAQQQEEQRGPRDGRIRLRESRLEDTSCQHHLAGVTQCPSCVQA 500
501 AGEVEILTSHSQKSHKLPLEEKPLEEDSCATSEEGGGSSPEASINKGLAK 550
551 HLLSGLGDRLCRLLRKEREALAWAQREGQGPAMTEDSPGIPHCCSRCHHG 600
601 LFNTHWRCSHCSHRLCVACGRIAGAGKNREKTGSREQRTDDCAQEAGHAA 650
651 CSLILTQFVSSQALAELSTVMHQVWAKFDIRGHCFCQVDARVWAPGDGGQ 700
701 QKEPTEKTPPAPQLSCNGDSNRTKDIKEETPDSTESPAEDRAGRSPLPCP 750
751 SLCELLASTAVKLCLGHERIHMAFAPVTPALPSDDRITNILDSIIAQVVE 800
801 RKIQEKALGPGLRAGSGLRKGLSLPLSPVRTQLSPPGALLWLQEPRPKHG 850
851 FRLFQEHWRQGQPVLVSGIQKTLRLSLWGMEALGTLGGQVQTLTALGPPQ 900
901 PTSLDSTAFWKGFSHPEARPKLDEGSVLLLHRPLGDKDESRVENLASSLP 950
951 LPEYCAHQGKLNLASYLPLGLTLHPLEPQLWAAYGVNSHRGHLGTKNLCV 1000
1001 EVSDLISILVHAEAQLPPWYRAQKDFLSGLDGEGLWSPGSQTSTVWHVFR 1050
1051 AQDAQRIRRFLQMVCPAGAGTLEPGAPGSCYLDSGLRRRLREEWGVSCWT 1100
1101 LLQAPGEAVLVPAGAPHQVQGLVSTISVTQHFLSPETSALSAQLCHQGAS 1150
1151 LPPDHRMLYAQMDRAVFQAVKVAVGTLQEAK 1181

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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