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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.64 (see score help below)

   1  MTQDKSIEPFFLNKVVDKSQLRQLIIWAFRNYGIARASNMADTLKDLGFL    50
  51  YATKAGISLSLEDLRIPPAKNNLLKTTIDLINDTDTKYRKGEITAVERFQ   100
 101  KVIDTWNSASDTLKKQVIKYFTEKDPLNSIYMMAFSGARANISQVRQLVG   150
 151  MRGLMADPQGQIIDLPISSNFREGLTITDYFISSYGARKGLVDTALRTAD   200
 201  SGYLTRRLVDVAQDVIIREADCNTSKGIVLESMIDNRKTLVSLHQALIGR   250
 251  VLAEDLFNPAGSKLVAKLNTEISPDLANEIISLGISSVLVRSPITCESIK   300
 301  SVCQSCYGWNLAHGRIVDLGEAVGIIAAQSIGEPGTQLTMRTFHTGGVFT   350
 351  GELAQTVISSSDCQVEYPSNIILSDTRTRHGDHAFLVEKDIKLKLLDFNK   400
 401  KQTSLSLVKGSLLFVKHLEYITSGQVIAEYPISNRLITEKAQKAVLADFS   450
 451  GSIYLMDLSVSNIQSEQQTFKNVIKGGVIWILAGHVFSIPYNTQLIISEN   500
 501  DFIDENHLIGKTEFVSRYEGRVRILKKKQDFIQDIVIITSSKTYINIDVL   550
 551  TKFYNGYTNHFLITNQQDKFILKTLPNQTIVDQQLIAELITNIYRTNTGG   600
 601  IIKYLDLSVSDKKVDLNSKKDYYDIVDGGYVLWIGEETHEINKDISLLLV   650
 651  SHGQLIDEGTEIVKNIFTNSSGIVDIIQKEGIVREIIIKPGILYPHSKFY   700
 701  DHKSKSRGFLKPGEIISNDLKTDKLVYWEYFYVKNQSYTLIRPVIVYSIP   750
 751  SKTIQFKYSADSFNSHICSLKLVKRIYFRDGERVKSVSGIDIVKTYLIAE   800
 801  LNKDSLNLKCTLQLNLDSNNRSISRMRIVTMDKLSLKDENNIASTKDLYT   850
 851  RTRLLVTNNQYIKSGTVVAQTELFSSLEGQVVSIQKNKSSNPRILLITSL   900
 901  DTKVFSINNNQNIKVNINDLIYAGDEIATNIISYISGQVISIRDNQITVR   950
 951  LGQPYLISEGSFLHVNNQALIQRGENIATLIFERVKTGDIVQGLPRIEEI  1000
1001  LEARKKSDSFFNPHVVLDSKFRQYVNQGLNLYDATRLSLLILQLYLVKEL  1050
1051  QLVYQSQGVEIADKHIEVIVRQMTSKVKIENGGDTDHLPGEIIELQKIEM  1100
1101  LNKALRLASKEEALYYPILLGITKASLNTESFISAASFQETTKVLTDAAI  1150
1151  SCKLDWLRGLKENVIIGRLIPAGTGFNIYNNMQLNYQDEKYSYTKNLLSL  1200
1201  PQNTKNLNFEDIIVDDRNAHMYSRNNNL                        1228

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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