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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 1.00 (see score help below)

   1  MAPAMQPAEIQFAQRLASSEKGIRDRAVKKLRQYISVKTQRETGGFSQEE    50
51 LLKIWKGLFYCMWVQDEPLLQEELANTIAQLVHAVNNSAAQHLFIQTFWQ 100
101 TMNREWKGIDRLRLDKYYMLIRLVLRQSFEVLKRNGWEESRIKVFLDVLM 150
151 KEVLCPESQSPNGVRFHFIDIYLDELSKVGGKELLADQNLKFIDPFCKIA 200
201 AKTKDHTLVQTIARGVFEAIVDQSPFVPEETMEEQKTKVGDGDLSAEEIP 250
251 ENEVSLRRAVSKKKTALGKNHSRKDGLSDERGRDDCGTFEDTGPLLQFDY 300
301 KAVADRLLEMTSRKNTPHFNRKRLSKLIKKFQDLSEGSSISQLSFAEDIS 350
351 ADEDDQILSQGKHKKKGNKLLEKTNLEKEKGSRVFCVEEEDSESSLQKRR 400
401 RKKKKKHHLQPENPGPGGAAPSLEQNRGREPEASGLKALKARVAEPGAEA 450
451 TSSTGEESGSEHPPAVPMHNKRKRPRKKSPRAHREMLESAVLPPEDMSQS 500
501 GPSGSHPQGPRGSPTGGAQLLKRKRKLGVVPVNGSGLSTPAWPPLQQEGP 550
551 PTGPAEGANSHTTLPQRRRLQKKKAGPGSLELCGLPSQKTASLKKRKKMR 600
601 VMSNLVEHNGVLESEAGQPQALGSSGTCSSLKKQKLRAESDFVKFDTPFL 650
651 PKPLFFRRAKSSTATHPPGPAVQLNKTPSSSKKVTFGLNRNMTAEFKKTD 700
701 KSILVSPTGPSRVAFDPEQKPLHGVLKTPTSSPASSPLVAKKPLTTTPRR 750
751 RPRAMDFF 758

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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