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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.91 (see score help below)

   1  MESLDSMLTDPLELGPCVESNGTGIMEECMLGGTRVSLPEDLLEDPDLFF    50
51 EVVSRDTWKNVLSDSQREHLKQFLPVFPDDNANQQEKIIQSLFRGDNFRF 100
101 GNPLHIAQKLFRDGHFNPEVVKYRQLCLKSQYKRYLTSQQQYFHKLLKQI 150
151 LASRKELLDLARKNGPDQVLKKKPSSLRNTPEERETRAQCRYLKILREVK 200
201 DECGDGTLSSEEEDLSSWLPESPTHCPSVAVPLRVIPTLSTQDMKTADKQ 250
251 EFTNHDLKLLLRRHREKRKRQSDHPDLITDNLSMNDIMTRVNAGRKGSLA 300
301 ALFDLATMKKRVKEKDDKKKKKLKTIKTEVEDYPDMPDEADIMPAVLPPE 350
351 TPQVTLTAVKEEPLEDVKPPLPFNEISACFFCLLLDILTMEGPCSLPLLE 400
401 DKVSDWQSLPASTLNSWFSVAPNWCDLVHPALIYLSGECKVASSSFTPFV 450
451 EFREKTQQWKCVVSSSDSEKELVAHFHLWLETKDQIYSKENEDCIDASTP 500
501 IPRVRTDYIVRPSSGEEKHVFQEQERHRYIQPHKAFTFRMHGFESVVGPV 550
551 KGVFDKETSLNKAREHSLLRSDRPAYVTILSLVRDAAARLPNGEGTRAEI 600
601 CELLKDSQFLAPDVTSAQVNTVVSGALDRLHYEKDPCVKYDIGRKLWIYL 650
651 HRDRSEEEFERIHQAQAAAAKAKKALQQKPKPPTKMKSGSKECSLKLCGT 700
701 PEPAQLSLTESSMPPTPGTPGTPTPPALPSTPMSPSTSATVNKIVASTIT 750
751 ETQKSSQSVLLVSSPAMPQLSTLLSPAVTSQSTSVTPTSGRAATISSSTG 800
801 VPQVRIVTATTGVPTTQSAAVVTQPLSPVISHIRLPVTTTPTKALAQTQV 850
851 VTVPVKNQTTIGASRLGASVTTQGSVTVNTLNSSAGLASKSVVSSPGASG 900
901 PAILQSITGQSIIKQVALSGQLGVKSQPSSSLPLSSTNFRIQGKDVLRLP 950
951 PSSITTDAKGQTILRITPDMMATLAKSQVTAVKLSQELFSAAPVSTTGKG 1000
1001 LLHVTSSPSSPSPPAPSTIKLTPEMKPAETSSSSFRLMPALGISVAEQKG 1050
1051 KVVTAGESKPATTIRIVQGLGVMPPKVSATQSITVSAKPVTVPSSTIVNP 1100
1101 VHSASNVSLPTVNSTAVKTAPTGIVVGTGAATVRQIPVTTTQQGKLPARI 1150
1151 TVPLSVLSQPMKGKGVVTAPIIKGNLGANISGLGRNIILTTVPAGTKLIA 1200
1201 GNKPVSFLTAQQLQQLQQQGQATQVRIQTVPASHLPQGTSPASSKAVSTV 1250
1251 VVTTTPTTKPTQEPQ 1265

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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