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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.23 (see score help below)

   1  MDRNRQLLLVIGVLFHFFYLWSIFDIYFVSPLVHGMDHHKSTWTPPAKRL    50
51 FLIVGDGLRADKTFQKLTHPRTGEEKYLAPYLRSLALNNGTWGISNTRMP 100
101 TESRPGHVAMIAGFYEDVSAVTKGWKENPVDFDSFFNQSKHTYSFGSPDI 150
151 LPMFAFGDGVVPGRIDVCMYGHEFEDFTASSIELDAYVFHHLDELMHNST 200
201 TNATLNEELRQDGNVFFLHLLGPDTAGHAYRPYSAEYYENIEYIDRKLEE 250
251 VIPQINKFFGDDQTAFVFTADHGMSDFGSHGDGHPDNTRTPLIAWGAGVK 300
301 KPIHLQDVSNLEEQLLKQSPENSGFESTYFDTWELDHLVRNDVNQADIAS 350
351 LMAYLIGANYPANSVGELPLGYIDADPVTKARALYANSLAIVEQYFVKEQ 400
401 EVYNHQFKFKPYSPFEEKSIQKYQQEIESLIDQLEKSGSGSKDEIEKKVI 450
451 AKIEELMKTTLDGLTYLQTYNWLLLRSIVTLGFFGWIVYSFNIFLKLFVL 500
501 NEDELKIPPEFSVTLVGIFGALAISINYLLFYQNSPFNYYMYAAFPLYFW 550
551 YTILNEKKYLITGIESFLHGISNTTKFLIVVSFIGMYEGIAYGFFERVMF 600
601 SIILIIIGLYPLLVHGAHKVSGLMKTIWFITCLLMCTFTNLDPVKIESLF 650
651 QINVGTILALIVSIMGTKQVFKRTQVGPIQKQLIIAQIAIIPIILFATNI 700
701 SVLSLQARTGLPLYSQILGWITFIVSLIVLPILHFLNPSSDYQLRLLIIF 750
751 LTFVPTFIILTISFELLFYVGFSLILLQWLSIEELLKFSHKDLVETFEKT 800
801 GKLPKGYWLQVIRITIIGFFFLQLAFFGTGNIASISSFSLDSVYRLIPIF 850
851 DPFSMGALLMIKLIIPYVLLSTCLGIMNHQLEIKKFTISTLIISTSDFLS 900
901 LNFFFLVRTEGSWLDIGVSISNYCLAILSSLFMLILELISSVVLSGVEYN 950
951 SDGTKLDFEPISYRVRKRKVT 971

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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