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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.17 (see score help below)

   1  MDCSLLRTLVRRYCAGEENWVDSRTIYVGHKEPPPGAEAYIPQRYPDNRI    50
51 VSSKYTFWNFIPKNLFEQFRRIANFYFLIIFLVQLIIDTPTSPVTSGLPL 100
101 FFVITVTAIKQGYEDWLRHKADNAMNQCPVHFIQHGKLVRKQSRKLRVGD 150
151 IVMVKEDETFPCDLIFLSSNRADGTCHVTTASLDGESSHKTHYAVQDTKG 200
201 FHTEADVDSLHATIECEQPQPDLYKFVGRINVYNDLNDPVVRPLGSENLL 250
251 LRGATLKNTEKIFGVAIYTGMETKMALNYQSKSQKRSAVEKSMNTFLIVY 300
301 LCILVSKALINTVLKYVWQSEPFRDEPWYNEKTESERQRNLFLRAFTDFL 350
351 AFMVLFNYIIPVSMYVTVEMQKFLGSYFITWDEDMFDEEMGEGPLVNTSD 400
401 LNEELGQVEYIFTDKTGTLTENNMAFKECCIEGHVYVPHVICNGQVLPDS 450
451 SGIDMIDSSPGVCGREREELFFRAICLCHTVQVKDDHCGDDVDGPQKSPD 500
501 AKSCVYISSSPDEVALVEGVQRLGFTYLRLKDNYMEILNRENDIERFELL 550
551 EVLTFDSVRRRMSVIVKSTTGEIYLFCKGADSSIFPRVIEGKVDQVRSRV 600
601 ERNAVEGLRTLCVAYKRLEPEQYEDACRLLQSAKVALQDREKKLAEAYEQ 650
651 IEKDLVLLGATAVEDRLQEKAADTIEALQKAGIKVWVLTGDKMETASATC 700
701 YACKLFRRSTQLLELTTKKLEEQSLHDVLFDLSKTVLRCSGSMTRDSFSG 750
751 LSTDMHDYGLIIDGAALSLIMKPREDGSSSGNYRELFLEICRNCSAVLCC 800
801 RMAPLQKAQIVKLIKFSKEHPITLAIGDGANDVSMILEAHVGIGVIGKEG 850
851 RQAARNSDYAIPKFKHLKKMLLVHGHFYYIRISELVQYFFYKNVCFIFPQ 900
901 FLYQFFCGFSQQTLYDTAYLTLYNISFTSLPILLYSLMEQHVGIDVLKRD 950
951 PTLYRDIAKNALLRWRVFIYWTFLGVFDALVFFFGAYFIFENTTVTINGQ 1000
1001 MFGNWTFGTLVFTVMVLTVTLKLALDTHYWTWINHFVIWGSLLFYIAFSL 1050
1051 LWGGVIWPFLSYQRMYYVFISMLSSGPAWLGIILLVTVGLLPDVLKKVLC 1100
1101 RQLWPTATERTQNIQHQDSISEFTPLASLPSWGAQGSRLLAAQCSSPSGR 1150
1151 VVCSRWESEECPVLPLHPGLPHKARYGCCRSSLEMPT 1187

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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