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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.77 (see score help below)

   1  MQRSPLEKASVVSKLFFSWTRPILKKGYRQRLELSDIYQIPSADSADNLS    50
51 EKLEREWDRELASKKNPKLINALRRCFFWRFMFYGIFLYLGEVTKAVQPL 100
101 LLGRIIASYDPDNKEERSIAIYLGIGLCLLFIVRTLLLHPAIFGLHHIGM 150
151 QMRIAMFSLIYKKTLKLSSRVLDKISIGQLVSLLSNNLNKFDEGLALAHF 200
201 VWIAPLQVALLMGLIWELLQASAFCGLGFLIVLALFQAGLGRMMMKYRDQ 250
251 RAGKINERLVITSEMIENIQSVKAYCWEEAMEKMIENLRQTELKLTRKAA 300
301 YVRYFNSSAFFFSGFFVVFLSVLPYALIKGIVLRKIFTTISFCIVLRMAV 350
351 TRQFPWAVQTWYDSLGAINKIQDFLQKQEYKTLEYNLTTTEVVMENVTAF 400
401 WEEGFGELFEKAKQNNNNRETSNGDDSLFFSNFSLLGTPVLKDINFKIER 450
451 GQLLAVAGSTGAGKTSLLMMIMGELEPSEGKIKHSGRISFCSQFSWIMPG 500
501 TIKENIIFGVSYDEYRYRSVIKACQLEEDISKFAEKDNIVLGEGGITLSG 550
551 GQRARISLARAVYKDADLYLLDSPFGYLDVLTEKEIFESCVCKLMANKTR 600
601 ILVTSKMEHLKKADKILILHEGSSYFYGTFSELQNLRPDFSSKLMGCDSF 650
651 DQFSAERRNSILTETLRRFSLEGDAPVSWTETKKQPFKQTGEFGEKRKNS 700
701 ILNPINSIRKFSIVQKTPLQMNGIEEDSDEPFERRVSLVPDSEQGEAILP 750
751 RISVISTGPMLQARRRQSVLNLMTQSVNQGQNIHRKTTASTRKVSLAPQA 800
801 NLTELDIYSRRLSQETGLEISEEINEEDLKECFFDDMESIPAVTTWNTYL 850
851 RYITVHKSLIFVLIWCLVIFLAEVAASLVVLWLLGNTPLQDKGNSTHSRN 900
901 NSYAVIITSTSSYYVFYIYVGVADTLLAMGFFRGLPLVHTLITVSKILHN 950
951 KMLHSVLQAPMSTLNTLKAGGILNRFSKDIAILDDLLPLTIFDFIQLLLI 1000
1001 VIGAIAVVAVLQPYIFVATVPVIVAFIMLRAYFLQTSQQLKQLESEGRSP 1050
1051 IFTHLVTSLKGLWTLRAFGRQPYFETLFHKALNLHTANWFLYLSTLRWFQ 1100
1101 MRIEMIFVIFFIAVTFISILTTGEGEGRVGIILTLAMNIMSTLQWAVNSS 1150
1151 IDVDSLMRSVSRVFKFIDMPTEGKPTKSTKPYKNGQLSKLMIIENSHVKK 1200
1201 DDIWPSGGQMTVKDLTAKYTEGGNAILENISFSISPGQRVGLLGRTGSGK 1250
1251 STLLSAFLRLLNTEGEIQIDGVSWDSITLQQWRKAFGVIPQKVFIFSGTF 1300
1301 RKNLDPYEQWSDQEIWKVADEVGLRSVIEQFPGKLDFVLVDGGCVLSHGH 1350
1351 KQLMCLARSVLSKAKILLLDEPSAHLDPVTYQIIRRTLKQAFADCTVILC 1400
1401 EHRIEAMLECQQFLVIEENKVRQYDSIQKLLNERSLFQQAISPSDRVKLF 1450
1451 PHRNSSKCKSKPQIAALKEETEEEVQDTRL 1480

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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