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 0.47 (see score help below)

   1  MFHLRTCAAKLRPLTASQTVKTFSQNKPAAIRTFQQIRCYSAPVAAEPFL    50
51 SGTSSNYVEEMYCAWLENPKSVHKSWDIFFRNTNAGAPPGTAYQSPLSLS 100
101 RSSLATMAHAQSLVEAQPNVDKLVEDHLAVQSLIRAYQIRGHHVAQLDPL 150
151 GILDADLDSSVPADIISSTDKLGFYGLHESDLDKVFHLPTTTFIGGQEPA 200
201 LPLREIIRRLEMAYCQHIGVEFMFINDLEQCQWIRQKFETPGIMQFTNEE 250
251 KRTLLARLVRSTRFEEFLQRKWSSEKRFGLEGCEVLIPALKTIIDMSSAN 300
301 GVDYVIMGMPHRGRLNVLANVIRKELEQIFCQFDSKLEAADEGSGDMKYH 350
351 LGMYHRRINRVTDRNITLSLVANPSHLEAADPVVMGKTKAEQFYCGDTEG 400
401 KKVMSILLHGDAAFAGQGIVYETFHLSDLPSYTTHGTVHVVVNNQIGFTT 450
451 DPRMARSSPYPTDVARVVNAPIFHVNSDDPEAVMYVCKVAAEWRNTFHKD 500
501 VVVDLVCYRRNGHNEMDEPMFTQPLMYKQIRKQKPVLQKYAELLVSQGVV 550
551 NQPEYEEEISKYDKICEEAFTRSKDEKILHIKHWLDSPWPGFFTLDGQPR 600
601 SMTCPSTGLEEDVLFHIGKVASSVPVENFTIHGGLSRILKTRRELVTNRT 650
651 VDWALAEYMAFGSLLKEGIHVRLSGQDVERGTFSHRHHVLHDQNVDKRTC 700
701 IPMNHLWPNQAPYTVCNSSLSEYGVLGFELGFAMASPNALVLWEAQFGDF 750
751 NNMAQCIIDQFICPGQAKWVRQNGIVLLLPHGMEGMGPEHSSARPERFLQ 800
801 MCNDDPDVLPDLQEENFDINQLYDCNWIVVNCSTPGNFFHVLRRQILLPF 850
851 RKPLIVFTPKSLLRHPEARTSFDEMLPGTHFQRVIPENGPAAQDPHKVKR 900
901 LLFCTGKVYYDLTRERKARNMEEEVAITRIEQLSPFPFDLLLKEAQKYPN 950
951 AELAWCQEEHKNQGYYDYVKPRLRTTIDRAKPVWYAGRDPAAAPATGNKK 1000
1001 THLTELQRFLDTAFDLDAFKKFS 1023

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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