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 0.50 (see score help below)

   1  MKAPAVLAPGILVLLFTLVQRSNGECKEALTKSEMNVNMKYQLPNFTAET    50
51 PIQNVILHEHHIFLGATNYIYVLNEEDLQKVAEYRTGPVLEHPDCFPCQD 100
101 CSSKANLSGGVWKDNINMALVVDTYYDDQLISCGSVNRGTCQRHVFPHNH 150
151 TADIQSEVHCIFSAQTEEPSQCPDCMVSALGTKVLLSVKDRFLNFFVGNT 200
201 INSSYFPDHSLHSISVRRLKETKDGFMFLTDQSYVDVLPEFRDSYPIKYV 250
251 HAFESNNFIYFLTVQRETLNAQTFHTRIIRFCSINSALHSYMEMPLECIL 300
301 TEKRKKRSTKKEVFNILQAAYVSKPGAQLARQIGASLNDDILFGVFAQSK 350
351 PDSAEPMDRSAVCAFPIKYVNDFFNKIVNKNNVRCLQHFYGPNHEHCFNR 400
401 TFQRNLLGCEARHDEYRTEFTTALQRIDLFAGQFNKVLLTSISTFIKGDL 450
451 TIANLGTSEGRFIQIVVSRSVPSNPHVNFLLDSHPVSPEVIVEHPLNQNG 500
501 YTLVVTGKKITKIPLNGLGCRHFQSCSQCLSAPSFVQCGWCHDKCVRSEE 550
551 CSSGTWTQETCLPTIYKVFPTSAPLEGGTRLTICGWDFGFRRNNKFDLKK 600
601 TRVLLGNESCTLTLSESTMNTLKCTVGPAMNERFNMSIIISNAHGTTQYS 650
651 TFSYVDPIITSISPRYGPMSGGTLLTLTGNYLNSGNSRHISIGGKTCTLK 700
701 SVSNSILECYTPAQSISTEFPVKLKIDLANRETSIFSYREDPIVYEIYPT 750
751 KSFVSGGSTITGIGKNLNSVSVPRMVINLHEAKRNFTVACQHRSNSEIIC 800
801 CTTPSLQQLNLQLPLKTKAFFMLDGILSKYFDLIYVHNPVFKPFEKPVMI 850
851 SIGNENVLEIKGNDIDPEAVKGEVLKVGNKSCENIHLHSEAVLCTVPGDL 900
901 LKLNSELNIEWKQAISSTVLGKVIVQPDQNFTGLVAGVVSISIALLLLLG 950
951 LFLWLKKKKQIKDLGSELVRYDARVHTPHLDRLVSARSVSPTTEMVSNES 1000
1001 VDYRATFPEDQFPNSSQNGSCRQVQYPLTDMSPILTSGDSDISSPLLQNT 1050
1051 VHIDLSALNPELVQAVQHVVIGPSSLIVHFNEVIGRGHFGCVYHGTLLDN 1100
1101 DGKKIHCAVKSLNRITDIGEVSQFLTEGIIMKDFSHPNVLSLLGICLRSE 1150
1151 GSPLVVLPYMKHGDLRNFIRNETHNPTVKDLIGFGLQVAKGMKYLASKKF 1200
1201 VHRDLAARNCMLDEKFTVKVADFGLARDMYDKEYYSVHNKTGAKLPVKWM 1250
1251 ALESLQTQKFTTKSDVWSFGVLLWELMTRGAPPYPDVNTFDITVYLLQGR 1300
1301 RLLQPEYCPDPLYEVMLKCWHPKAEMRPSFSELVSRISAIFSTFIGEHYV 1350
1351 HVNATYVNVKCVAPYPSLLSSQDNTDGEVDT 1381

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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