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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.52 (see score help below)

   1  MLIKEYHILLPMSLDEYQVAQLYMIQKKSREESSGEGSGVEILANRPYTD    50
51 GPGGNGQYTHKVYHVGSHIPGWFRALLPKAALQVEEESWNAYPYTRTRYT 100
101 CPFVEKFSIEIETYYLPDGGQQPNVFNLSGAERRQRILDTIDIVRDAVAP 150
151 GEYKAEEDPRLYRSVKTGRGPLADDWARTAAQTGPLMCAYKLCKVEFRYW 200
201 GMQAKIEQFIHDVGLRRVMLRAHRQAWCWQDEWIELSMADIRALEEETAR 250
251 MLAQRMAKCNTGSEGPEAQTPGKPSTETQPGTRTAGTPDGPEAPPGPDAS 300
301 PDASFGKQWSSSSRSSYSSQHGGGVSPQSLSEWRMQNIARDSENSSEEEF 350
351 FDAHEGFSDSDEVFPKEMTKWNSNDFIDAFASPTEVEGVPDPAIMATKGI 400
401 EDEARAPRDSEGLDGTGDLGVEACSVHALFLILHSGSILDSGPGDTNSKQ 450
451 ADVQTLSTAFEAVTRVHFPEALGHVALRLVPCPPICAAAYALVSNLSPYS 500
501 HDGDSLSRSQDHIPLAALPLLATSSSRYQGAVATVIARTNQAYAAFLRSS 550
551 EGTGFCGQVVLIGDGVGGILGFDALCHSASAGTGSRGSSRRGSMNNEMLS 600
601 PEVGPVRDPLADGVEVLGRASPEPSALPAQRTSSDMANPDPDGSQNSLQV 650
651 APTVTSGEPRRASTASCPPASSEAPDGPTNAARLDFKVSGFFLFGSPLGL 700
701 VLALRKTVMPALEVAQMRPACEQIYNLFHAADPCASRLEPLLAPKFQAIA 750
751 PLAVPRYQKFPLGDGSSLLLADTLQTHSSLFLEELEMMVPSTPTSASGAF 800
801 WKGNELGNEPAAQPAAPSTTSEVVKILDRWWGNKRIDYSLYCPEALTAFP 850
851 TVTLPHLFHASYWESADVVAFILRQVIEKERPQLTECEEPSIYSPAFPRE 900
901 KWQRKRTQVKIRNVTSNHRASDTVVCEGRPQVLNGRFMYGPLDVVTLTGE 950
951 KVDVYVMTQPLSGKWIHFGTEVTNSSGRLTFPVPSERALGIGVYPVRMVV 1000
1001 RGDHTYAECCLTVVSRGTEAVVFSIDGSFTASVSIMGSDPKVRAGAVDVV 1050
1051 RHWQDSGYLIVYVTGRPDMQKHRVVAWLSQHNFPHGVVSFCDGLTHDPLR 1100
1101 QKAMFLQSLVQEVELNIVAGYGSPKDVAVYAALGLSPSQTYIVGRAVRKL 1150
1151 QAQCQFLSDGYVAHLGQLEAGSHSHAPSGPPRAALAKSSYAVAAPVDFLR 1200
1201 KQSQLLRSRGPSQVDLEGPGTPPTTLARGKTRSISLKLDSEE 1242

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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