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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.94 (see score help below)

   1  MGDPKEAGAEASPSGAAARGGLSLLSQADSEEPSAQGSALFLGGNEVKSR    50
51 AVVKYSSAPPRTAFARLEEKTDLKLPPANWLRESAKLGPAGTTILGNSKK 100
101 SKPFSSFGMAYDFIDSVGNDVDVVSDSENIKKLLKIPYSKSHVSMAVHRI 150
151 GRTLLLDELDIQELFMRSSQTGDWTWLKEFYQRLIDQKWQRKKKSKEHWY 200
201 QKAILSKFLYYSINGDGAAQPVPSPAEQEESSSSQQTHESEGAAWPAPFE 250
251 MPSSVSEDPSASSQGREPLEPSCIVGHVASAPKEQNLTTLFNDGENSQGL 300
301 KNDFVRNILWTFEDIHMLVGSNMPIFGGGRYPAVSLRLRDNNKPINVLTG 350
351 IDYWLDNLICNVPELVMCFHVNGIVQKYEMIKTEEIPNLENSNFSTKVIK 400
401 DIAQNILSFLKSNCTKEGHTYWLFKASGSDIVKLYDLTTLCEETEDKYQN 450
451 PFTMPVAILLYKVACNMMMKKNQNKKHYGTIRTLLLNCVKLLDKSRHPQI 500
501 IASANYMLSELFQLDEPKKEESSDSPLNENSDESYSEEEEEMADSDENGS 550
551 YSTSSDPADDNKAVAIIKSVGELSVPEKYKSIHQIRPSCAFPVCHDTEER 600
601 CRLVLSYVLEGLKSVDSSIKKESDLPAADPSTPIPLKYEDESTRGGPEGL 650
651 EKQMALFLDKMGSIQKGSCSGQSGMTPGSWQHKMKLQLILKSSKAYYILS 700
701 DAAMSLQKYGRALRYIKLALQSHDTYCCLCTNMLSEVLLFLSQYLTLCGD 750
751 IQLMLAQNANNRAAHLEEFNYQTKEDQEILHSLHRESSCQGFAWATDLST 800
801 DLESQLSVSCKCYEAANEILQFSDLKSQNPEHYVQVLKRMGNIRNEIGVF 850
851 YMNQAAALQGERVVSKSVSAAEQQLWKKSFSCFEKGIHNFESIDDATNAA 900
901 LLLCNTGRLMRVCAQAHCGAEDEFKREFSPEEGLYYSKAVDYYLKALRSL 950
951 GTRDMHPIVWDSVNWELSTTYFTMATLQQDYAPLSRKAQEQIEKEVSEAM 1000
1001 MKSLKHCDVDSATARQPLCQYRAATIHHRLASMYHSCLRNQVGDEHLRKQ 1050
1051 HRVLADLHYSKAAKLFQLLKDAPCELLRVQLERVAFAEFQMSSQNSNVGK 1100
1101 LKTLSGALDIMVRTEHAFQLIRKELVEECDQPKNDEATPAADSSPNLNRE 1150
1151 EVIKLLSIFESRLSFLLLQSIKLMSSSKRKMSSNAEEDIVLQTNKQIYSQ 1200
1201 LLRATANRNSTLLERIEVVICLLEQLASGSSRSSGSAVP 1239

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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