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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.61 (see score help below)

   1  MRILQSFLACVQLLCVCRLDWAYGYYRQQRKLVEEIGWSYTGALNQKNWG    50
51 KKYPICNSPKQSPINIDEDLTQVNVNLKKLKFQGWEKPSLENTFIHNTGK 100
101 TVEINLTNDYYLSGGLSEKVFKASKMTFHWGKCNVSSEGSEHSLEGQKFP 150
151 LEMQIYCFDADRFSSFEETVKGKGRLRALSILFEIGVEENLDYKAIIDGT 200
201 ESVSRFGKQAALDPFILQNLLPNSTDKYYIYNGSLTSPPCTDTVEWIVFK 250
251 DTVSISESQLAVFCEVLTMQQSGYVMLMDYLQNNFREQQYKFSRQVFSSY 300
301 TGKEEIHEAVCSSEPENVQADPENYTSLLITWERPRVVYDTMIEKFAVLY 350
351 QPLEGNDQTKHEFLTDGYQDLGAILNNLIPNMSYVLQIVAICSNGLYGKY 400
401 SDQLIVDMPTEDAELDLFPELIGTEEIIKEENYGKGNEEDTGLNPGRDSA 450
451 TNQIRKKEPQVSTTTHYNHMGTKYNEAKTNRSPTRGSEFSGKSDVLNTSL 500
501 NPTSQQVAEFNPEREMSLPSQIGTNLPPHSVEGTSASLNSGSKTLLVFPQ 550
551 MNLSGTAESLNMVSITEYKEVSADLSEEENLLTDFKLDSGADDSSGSSPA 600
601 SSTVPFSTDNLSHGYTSSSDTPEAVTYDVLRPESTRNALEDSAPSGSEES 650
651 LKDPSLEGSVWFPGSTDLTTQSETGSGREGFLQVNSTDFQVDESRETTET 700
701 FSPDATASRGPSVTDMEMPHYSTFAYPPTEVTSHAFTPSSRPLDLAPTSN 750
751 ILHSQTTQPVYNGETPLQPSYSSEVFPLVTPLLLDNQTLNTTPAASSSDS 800
801 ALHATPVFPSVGVSFDSILSSYDDAPLLPFSSASFSSDLFHHLHTVSQTL 850
851 PQVTSAAERDELSLHASLLVAGGDLLLEPSLVQYSDVMSHQVTIHAASDT 900
901 LEFGSESAVLYKTSMVSQIESPSSDVVMHAYSSGPETSYAIEGSHHVLTV 950
951 SSSSAIPVHDSVGVADQGSLLINPSHISLPESSFITPTASLLQLPPALSG 1000
1001 DGEWSGASSDSELLLPDTDGLRTLNMSSPVSVADFTYTTSVSGDDIKPLS 1050
1051 KGEMMYGNETELKMSSFSDMAYPSKSTVVPKMSDIVNKWSESLKETSVSV 1100
1101 SSINSVFTESLVYPITKVFDQEISRVPEIIFPVKPTHTASQASGDTWLKP 1150
1151 GLSTNSEPALSDTASSEVSHPSTQPLLYEAASPFNTEALLQPSFPASDVD 1200
1201 TLLKTALPSGPRDPVLTETPMVEQSSSSVSLPLASESASSKSTLHFTSVP 1250
1251 VLNMSPSDVHPTSLQRLTVPHSREEYFEQGLLKSKSPQQVLPSLHSHDEF 1300
1301 FQTAHLDISQAYPPKGRHAFATPILSINEPQNTLINRLVYSEDIFMHPEI 1350
1351 SITDKALTGLPTTVSDVLIATDHSVPLGSGPISMTTVSPNRDDSVTTTKL 1400
1401 LLPSKATSKPTHSARSDADLVGGGEDGDDYDDDDYDDIDSDRFPVNKCMS 1450
1451 CSPYRESQEKVMNDSDTQESSLVDQSDPISHLLSENTEEENGGTGVTRVD 1500
1501 KSPDKSPPPSMLPQKHNDGREDRDIQMGSAVLPHTPGSKAWAVLTSDEES 1550
1551 GSGQGTSDSLNDNETSTDFSFPDVNEKDADGVLEADDTGIAPGSPRSSTP 1600
1601 SVTSGHSGVSNSSEAEASNSSHESRIGLAEGLESEKKAVIPLVIVSALTF 1650
1651 ICLVVLVGILIYWRKCFQTAHFYLEDNTSPRVISTPPTPIFPISDDIGAI 1700
1701 PIKHFPKHVADLHASNGFTEEFETLKEFYQEVQSCTVDLGITADSSNHPD 1750
1751 NKHKNRYVNIVAYDHSRVKLTQLAEKDGKLTDYINANYVDGYNRPKAYIA 1800
1801 AQGPLKSTAEDFWRMIWEHNVEVIVMITNLVEKGRRKCDQYWPTDGSEEY 1850
1851 GSFLVNQKNVQVLAYYTVRNFTLRNTKIKKGSQKGRSSGRLVTQYHYTQW 1900
1901 PDMGVPEYSLPVLAFVRKTAQAKRHAVGPVVVHCSAGVGRTGTYIVLDSM 1950
1951 LQQIQHEGTVNIFGFLKHIRSQRNYLVQTEEQYVFIHDTLVEAILSKETE 2000
2001 VPDSHIHSYVNTLLIPGPSGKTKLEKQFQLLSQSNILQSDYSTALKQCNR 2050
2051 EKNRTSSIIPVERSRVGISSLSGEGTDYINASYIMGYYQSNEFIITQHPL 2100
2101 LHTIKDFWRMIWDHNAQLVVMIPDGQNMAEDEFVYWPNKDEPINCESFKV 2150
2151 TLMSEEHKCLSNEEKLIVQDFILEATQDDYVLEVRHFQCPKWPNPDSPIS 2200
2201 KTFELISIIKEEAANRDGPMIVHDEHGGVTAGTFCALTTLMHQLEKENSM 2250
2251 DVYQVAKMINLMRPGVFTDIEQYQFLYKVVLSLVSTRQEENPSTSLDSNG 2300
2301 AALPDGNIAESLESLV 2316

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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