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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.59 (see score help below)

   1  MNFNNELSDLEKSFLFWTLRVQEYSYDTMHRIDFFLWELQVLNCFLHLQS    50
51 FTFASECGMLDISQKMLEICKRFNTPPPHNAFAYWKELICKRLCAISIRP 100
101 DDGFAYWKKVIWKTKQEFRAKYSFPKTLLADNKVDDDDTNPEFVMEFIDA 150
151 VVGNLNVLVKINDPSSLLFVPGPKEQIEQVLKELKLLRFFVCFVSNKCIE 200
201 PQYQHTTFYTHALIEASHIAMVVWLNLPIYGNRNQDLASSEVSCLLSNFM 250
251 EMKIKSIQPGISRNNIYIDVLQALKSTIPQAQKKHAAESGIVEIPTHSLM 300
301 VGLSDQMANLQEMLCLLKDNLIHLPILDLEFQPQDMDSVIIDAGLLIYSF 350
351 YDMKGEKEDTTLEDINRELGFDLSRNIEPIKVMIYLVMQKAFQCNLPRIH 400
401 GLGYVDFLLKNLKDFQGRYSDSFALHKTQIQVIQKEFESLQPFLKVVVEE 450
451 PHNTFKRLSEDCAIQIIRKAHEVEYVVDACINKGIPHWRLKGWLQIIIED 500
501 ITCIKEKIQEKNTVDDTMKTVIARTSSKLARTPRMNEEIVGFKDVIENLR 550
551 NQLLNGTKGQDAISIHGMPGLGKTTLANTLYSDRSVVSQFDICAQCCVSQ 600
601 VYSYKDLLLALLCDAVGEDSDRRELPDNELADMLRKTLLPRRYLILVDDV 650
651 WDNSAWDDLRGCFPDVNNRSRIILTTRHHEVAKYASVHSDPLHLRMFDKD 700
701 ESWKLLEKKVFGEQSCSPLLKDVGLRIAKMCGQLPLSIVLVAGILSEMEK 750
751 EVECWEQVANNLGTHIHNDSRAIVNQSYHVLPCHLKSCFLYFGAFLEDEV 800
801 IDISRLIRLWISESFIKSSEGRRLEDIAEGYLENLIGRNLVMVTQRADSD 850
851 GKVKACRLHDVLLDFCKERAAEENFLLWINRDQSTNAVYSHKRHAHLAFT 900
901 EMDSLVEWSASCSLVGSVLLKNYARRPLSSPAFSISHILLNFKFLKVLDL 950
951 EHQVVIDSIPTELFYLRYLSARIEQNSIPSSISNLWNLETLILKHVSRCT 1000
1001 VLLPSTVWDMVKLRHLHIPNFRPENEEALLENSAKLYDLETLSTPYFSRV 1050
1051 EDAELMLRKTPNLRKLVCEVECLEYPPQYHVLNFPIRLEILKLYRSKAFN 1100
1101 TIPFCISAPNLKYLKLSRSYMDSQYLSETADHLKNLEVLKLYFVKFADHR 1150
1151 EWKVSNGMFPQLKILKLEYLALMKWIVADDAFPNLEQLVLHECRHLMEIP 1200
1201 SCFMDIPSLKYIEVENCNESVVKSAMNIQETQVEDYQNTNFKLVLIGIES 1250
1251 ISTDTKEKKLTVTRDVDADEVQLVVEKQRKRGML 1284

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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