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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.36 (see score help below)

   1  MTKRVITDRLRSTLQDSNYSDVGRDLINFILWELKFLDCFLHLKSLPFAS    50
51 ECCMLDVSQKMIEILKSRILSICPDSGIQLWKGNLSMKTLYLEDVRVTLD 100
101 SFGYWKEVIWKTKQEFSAEYSFPNTSLAANKVDDVSPKFVMEVIDVFVEN 150
151 LNVVVKINDPISWLFVPEHKEQIEQVLKELKLLRFFVWFVSNKYIEPQYQ 200
201 HTTFYIHALIEASHISMAVWLHLPVCSKGNQNLAPSEVSRLLSDFVEMKI 250
251 KATEPGISRNNIYIDVLQDLKLTIPQAQKKHAAESGIVEILTHSMMVGLS 300
301 DQMANLQEMLCLLRDNLIHLPILDLEFHLQDMDSIIVDAGLLIYSLYDIK 350
351 GEKEDTTLEDINRELGFDLPRNIEPIKVIVYLVMQKAFQCNLPRIHGLGY 400
401 VDFLLKNLKDFQGRYSDSLAFLKNQIQVIQMEFEILQPFLKVVVEEPHNK 450
451 FKRLNEDCAIQIIRKAHEVEYVVDACINKGIPHWCLERWLQDIIEETTCI 500
501 KAKIQEKNTVEDTMKTVITHTSSQLARTPRMNEEIVWFKDVIENLRNRLL 550
551 NGTKGQDVISIHSMPGLGKTTLANRLYSDRSIVSQFDICAQCCVSQVYSY 600
601 KELLLALLCDAIGEGSDQHREIHANELADMLRKTLLPRRYLILVDDVWEN 650
651 SAWDDLRGCFPDVNNRSRIILTTRHHEVAKYASVHSEPLHLRMFEEDESW 700
701 KLLEKRVFGEESCSPLLKDVGLRIAKMCRQLPLSIVLVADVLLDFCKERA 750
751 AEENFLLWIKRDQITKAAYSHKQHTHLALTEMDTLLEWSTSGSLVGSVLF 800
801 KNYDPYFVRSLLSSHAFEISHILPHFKFLKVLDLEHQVVIDFIPTELPYL 850
851 RYFSALIHQNSIPSSISNLWNLETLILKGTSAKTLLLPSTVWDMVKLGYL 900
901 YIPNFSPENKKALLENSPKLDDLETLSNPYFARVEDAELMLRKTPNLRKL 950
951 ICEVECLEYPHQYHVLNFPVQLEILKFYRSKASKTIPFCISAPNLKYLKL 1000
1001 SGYYLDSQYLSETVDHLKHLEVLKLYNVEFGDYREWEVSNGKFPQLKILK 1050
1051 LENLSLMKWIVADDAFPILEQLVLHDCRDLMEIPSCFMDILSLKYIEVDM 1100
1101 SNKSVVKSAKNIEETQVEDNQNTNFKLVIIKVHYWEKLYSA 1141

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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