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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.37 (see score help below)

   1  MSAPKKTYSSTTSAKSKHSVRVAQTTADAALEAVYEMSGDSGDSFDYSKS    50
51 VGQSAESVPAGAVTAYLQRMQRGGLIQTFGCMVAVEEPNFCVIAYSENAS 100
101 EFLDLMPQAVPSMGEMDVLGIGTDIRTLFTPSSGAALEKAAATQDISLLN 150
151 PITVHCRRSGKPLYAIAHRIDIGIVIDFEAVKMNDVSVSAAGALQSHKLA 200
201 AKAITRLQALPGGDIGLLCDTVVEEVRELTGYDRVMAYKFHEDEHGEVVA 250
251 EIRRMDLEPYLGLHYPATDIPQASRFLFMKNRVRVIADCCASPVKLIQDP 300
301 DIKQPVSLAGSTLRAPHGCHAQYMGNMGSIASLVMAVIINDNEEDSRGAI 350
351 QRGRKLWGLVVCHHTSPRTVPFPLRSACEFLMQVFGMQLNMEVELAAQLR 400
401 EKHILRTQTLLCDMLLRDAPIGIVSQTPNIMDLVKCDGAALYYGKRFWLL 450
451 GTTPTENQIKDIAEWLLEYHKDSTGLSTDSLADANYPGAHLLGDAVCGMA 500
501 AAKITAKDFLFWFRSHTAKEVKWGGAKHDPAEKDDGRKMHPRSSFKAFLE 550
551 VVKRRSLPWEDVEMDAIHSLQLILRGSFQDIDDSDTKTMIHARLNDLKLH 600
601 GMDELSVVANEMVRLIETATAPILAVDSTGMINGWNAKIAHVTGLPVSEA 650
651 MGRSLVKDLVLDESVVVVERLLYLASQGEEEQNVEIKLKTFGTQTEKEAV 700
701 ILIVNACSSRDVSDSVVGVCFVGQDVTGQKMFMDKFTRIQGDYKTIVKNP 750
751 HPLIPPIFGGDEYGYCFEWNPAMEALTGWKHDEVVGKLLVGEIFGMEMMC 800
801 CRLKSQDSMTKFMISLNNAMDGTNTDKFSFSFCNREGKFVEALLSTNKRT 850
851 NADGVITGVFCFLQIASSELQQALTVQRATEKVAIAKLKELAYIRQEIKN 900
901 PLCGITFTRQLLEDTDLSDDQKQFLDTSAVCEQQLQKVLNDMDLESIEDG 950
951 YLELDTAEFEMGTVMDAVISQGMTTSREKGLQIIRETPREISTMRLFGDQ 1000
1001 IRLQQVLSDFLINAIRFTPSSEGWVKIKVVPTRKRLGGNVHVMHLEFRVS 1050
1051 HPGGGLPDELVLEMYDRAKGMTQEGLGLNMCRKLVRLMNGDVQYVRENAQ 1100
1101 CYFVVYVELPMAQRDDAASQM 1121

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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