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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.82 (see score help below)

   1  MADSCAENAAKGTENERPKEVEASADTVPQVEEGVEEYLKRKNMVLLDYE    50
51 KQMFLDLVEADGLLVCAKGLSYDRVVISILKAYSDSGNLVLVINSSDWEE 100
101 QYYKSKIEPKYVHEVASTATERERVYLEGGLQFISTRILVVDLLKQRIPI 150
151 ELISGIIVLRAHTIIESCQEAFALRLFRQKNKTGFVKAFSSSPEAFTIGY 200
201 SHVERTMRNLFVKHLYIWPRFHESVRTVLQPWKIQSIEMHVPISQNITSI 250
251 QSHILEIMNFLVQEIKRINRTVDMEAVTVENCVTKSFHKILQAQLDCIWH 300
301 QLNSQTKLIVADLKILRSLMISTMYHDAVSAYAFMKRYRSTEYALSNSGW 350
351 TLLDAAEQIFKLSRQRVFNGQQEFEPEPCPKWQTLTDLLTKEIPGDMRRS 400
401 RRSEQQPKVLILCQDARTCHQLKQYLTQGGPRFLLQQALQHEVPVGKLSD 450
451 NYAKESQTRSAPPKNVSSNKELRREEVSGSQPPLAGMDELAQLLSESETE 500
501 GQHFEESYMLTMTQPVEVGPAAIDIKPDPDVSIFETIPELEQFDVTAALA 550
551 SVPHQPYICLQTFKTEREGSMALEHMLEQLQPHYVVMYNMNVTAIRQLEV 600
601 FEARRRLPPADRMKVYFLIHARTVEEQAYLTSLRREKAAFEFIIDTKSKM 650
651 VIPKYQDGKTDEAFLLLKTYDDEPTDENAKSRQAGGQAPQATKETPKVIV 700
701 DMREFRSDLPCLIHKRGLEVLPLTITIGDYILTPDICVERKSISDLIGSL 750
751 NSGRLYNQCVQMQRHYAKPILLIEFDQNKPFHLQGKFMLSQQTSMANADI 800
801 VQKLQLLTLHFPKLRLIWSPSPYATAQLFEELKLGKPEPDPQTAAALGSD 850
851 EPTAGEQLHFNSGIYDFLLRLPGVHTRNIHGLLRKGGSLRQLLLRSQKEL 900
901 EELLQSQESAKLLYDILHVAHLPEKDEVTGSTALLAASKQFGAGSHNRFR 950
951 MAAAASRRGRR 961

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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