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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.54 (see score help below)

   1  MAGAWLRWGLLLWAGLLASSAHGRLRRITYVVHPGPGLAAGALPLSGPPR    50
51 SRTFNVALNARYSRSSAAAGAPSRASPGVPSERTRRTSKPGGAALQGLRP 100
101 PPPPPPEPARPAVPGGQLHPNPGGHPAAAPFTKQGRQVVRSKVPQETQSG 150
151 GGSRLQVHQKQQLQGVNVCGGRCCHGWSKAPGSQRCTKPSCVPPCQNGGM 200
201 CLRPQLCVCKPGTKGKACETIAAQDTSSPVFGGQSPGAASSWGPPEQAAK 250
251 HTSSKKADTLPRVSPVAQMTLTLKPKPSVGLPQQIHSQVTPLSSQSVVIH 300
301 HGQTQEYVLKPKYFPAQKGISGEQSTEGSFPLRYVQDQVAAPFQLSNHTG 350
351 RIKVVFTPSICKVTCTKGSCQNSCEKGNTTTLISENGHAADTLTATNFRV 400
401 VICHLPCMNGGQCSSRDKCQCPPNFTGKLCQIPVHGASVPKLYQHSQQPG 450
451 KALGTHVIHSTHTLPLTVTSQQGVKVKFPPNIVNIHVKHPPEASVQIHQV 500
501 SRIDGPTGQKTKEAQPGQSQVSYQGLPVQKTQTIHSTYSHQQVIPHVYPV 550
551 AAKTQLGRCFQETIGSQCGKALPGLSKQEDCCGTVGTSWGFNKCQKCPKK 600
601 PSYHGYNQMMECLPGYKRVNNTFCQDINECQLQGVCPNGECLNTMGSYRC 650
651 TCKIGFGPDPTFSSCVPDPPVISEEKGPCYRLVSSGRQCMHPLSVHLTKQ 700
701 LCCCSVGKAWGPHCEKCPLPGTAAFKEICPGGMGYTVSGVHRRRPIHHHV 750
751 GKGPVFVKPKNTQPVAKSTHPPPLPAKEEPVEALTFSREHGPGVAEPEVA 800
801 TAPPEKEIPSLDQEKTKLEPGQPQLSPGISTIHLHPQFPVVIEKTSPPVP 850
851 VEVAPEASTSSASQVIAPTQVTEINECTVNPDICGAGHCINLPVRYTCIC 900
901 YEGYRFSEQQRKCVDIDECTQVQHLCSQGRCENTEGSFLCICPAGFMASE 950
951 EGTNCIDVDECLRPDVCGEGHCVNTVGAFRCEYCDSGYRMTQRGRCEDID 1000
1001 ECLNPSTCPDEQCVNSPGSYQCVPCTEGFRGWNGQCLDVDECLEPNVCAN 1050
1051 GDCSNLEGSYMCSCHKGYTRTPDHKHCRDIDECQQGNLCVNGQCKNTEGS 1100
1101 FRCTCGQGYQLSAAKDQCEDIDECQHRHLCAHGQCRNTEGSFQCVCDQGY 1150
1151 RASGLGDHCEDINECLEDKSVCQRGDCINTAGSYDCTCPDGFQLDDNKTC 1200
1201 QDINECEHPGLCGPQGECLNTEGSFHCVCQQGFSISADGRTCEDIDECVN 1250
1251 NTVCDSHGFCDNTAGSFRCLCYQGFQAPQDGQGCVDVNECELLSGVCGEA 1300
1301 FCENVEGSFLCVCADENQEYSPMTGQCRSRTSTDLDVDVDQPKEEKKECY 1350
1351 YNLNDASLCDNVLAPNVTKQECCCTSGVGWGDNCEIFPCPVLGTAEFTEM 1400
1401 CPKGKGFVPAGESSSEAGGENYKDADECLLFGQEICKNGFCLNTRPGYEC 1450
1451 YCKQGTYYDPVKLQCFDMDECQDPSSCIDGQCVNTEGSYNCFCTHPMVLD 1500
1501 ASEKRCIRPAESNEQIEETDVYQDLCWEHLSDEYVCSRPLVGKQTTYTEC 1550
1551 CCLYGEAWGMQCALCPLKDSDDYAQLCNIPVTGRRQPYGRDALVDFSEQY 1600
1601 TPEADPYFIQDRFLNSFEELQAEECGILNGCENGRCVRVQEGYTCDCFDG 1650
1651 YHLDTAKMTCVDVNECDELNNRMSLCKNAKCINTDGSYKCLCLPGYVPSD 1700
1701 KPNYCTPLNTALNLEKDSDLE 1721

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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