SBC logo Authors: Amine Heddad, Andrea Krings, Markus Brameier and Bob MacCallum, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Sweden.

NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.52 (see score help below)

   1  MDTTAAAALPAFVALLLLSPWPLLGSAQGQFSAGGCTFDDGPGACDYHQD    50
51 LYDDFEWVHVSAQEPHYLPPEMPQGSYMIVDSSDHDPGEKARLQLPTMKE 100
101 NDTHCIDFSYLLYSQKGLNPGTLNILVRVNKGPLANPIWNVTGFTGRDWL 150
151 RAELAVSTFWPNEYQVIFEAEVSGGRSGYIAIDDIQVLSYPCDKSPHFLR 200
201 LGDVEVNAGQNATFQCIATGRDAVHNKLWLQRRNGEDIPVAQTKNINHRR 250
251 FAASFRLQEVTKTDQDLYRCVTQSERGSGVSNFAQLIVREPPRPIAPPQL 300
301 LGVGPTYLLIQLNANSIIGDGPIILKEVEYRMTSGSWTETHAVNAPTYKL 350
351 WHLDPDTEYEIRVLLTRPGEGGTGLPGPPLITRTKCAEPMRTPKTLKIAE 400
401 IQARRIAVDWESLGYNITRCHTFNVTICYHYFRGHNESKADCLDMDPKAP 450
451 QHVVNHLPPYTNVSLKMILTNPEGRKESEETIIQTDEDVPGPVPVKSLQG 500
501 TSFENKIFLNWKEPLDPNGIITQYEISYSSIRSFDPAVPVAGPPQTVSNL 550
551 WNSTHHVFMHLHPGTTYQFFIRASTVKGFGPATAINVTTNISAPTLPDYE 600
601 GVDASLNETATTITVLLRPAQAKGAPISAYQIVVEELHPHRTKREAGAME 650
651 CYQVPVTYQNAMSGGAPYYFAAELPPGNLPEPAPFTVGDNRTYQGFWNPP 700
701 LAPRKGYNIYFQAMSSVEKETKTQCVRIATKAATEEPEVIPDPAKQTDRV 750
751 VKIAGISAGILVFILLLLVVILIVKKSKLAKKRKDAMGNTRQEMTHMVNA 800
801 MDRSYADQSTLHAEDPLSITFMDQHNFSPRYENHSATAESSRLLDVPRYL 850
851 CEGTESPYQTGQLHPAIRVADLLQHINLMKTSDSYGFKEEYESFFEGQSA 900
901 SWDVAKKDQNRAKNRYGNIIAYDHSRVILQPVEDDPSSDYINANYIDGYQ 950
951 RPSHYIATQGPVHETVYDFWRMIWQEQSACIVMVTNLVEVGRVKCYKYWP 1000
1001 DDTEVYGDFKVTCVEMEPLAEYVVRTFTLERRGYNEIREVKQFHFTGWPD 1050
1051 HGVPYHATGLLSFIRRVKLSNPPSAGPIVVHCSAGAGRTGCYIVIDIMLD 1100
1101 MAEREGVVDIYNCVKALRSRRINMVQTEEQYIFIHDAILEACLCGETAIP 1150
1151 VCEFKAAYFDMIRIDSQTNSSHLKDEFQTLNSVTPRLQAEDCSIACLPRN 1200
1201 HDKNRFMDMLPPDRCLPFLITIDGESSNYINAALMDSYRQPAAFIVTQYP 1250
1251 LPNTVKDFWRLVYDYGCTSIVMLNEVDLSQGCPQYWPEEGMLRYGPIQVE 1300
1301 CMSCSMDCDVINRIFRICNLTRPQEGYLMVQQFQYLGWASHREVPGSKRS 1350
1351 FLKLILQVEKWQEECEEGEGRTIIHCLNGGGRSGMFCAIGIVVEMVKRQN 1400
1401 VVDVFHAVKTLRNSKPNMVEAPEQYRFCYDVALEYLESS 1439

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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