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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.45 (see score help below)

   1  MTDSTYDFGAVRDDLTPLEDDCKLLGSLLDDCLRVEIGETMFKKIERIRA    50
51 LAQCASNLSIKGDAGASDMLSHRLAEELMNLDMDEAVPLTRACGHYLNLS 100
101 GIAELHHGVRRDRATREPNPNSCDAVFARLITEGVDPEELYRAVSEQNVE 150
151 VVLTAHPTQVNRRTLQYKHTRIAALLQQHDRSDLTAEERRNMVSELQREV 200
201 AALWQTDELRRQKPTPLDEARGGLHIVEQSLWAAVPQYMRRLSAALKKHT 250
251 GHDLPLQATPFRFGSWMGGDRDGNPNVTAKVTAHVTALARWMAADLYLRE 300
301 IDTLRFELSMNQCSAAVWKMARRIIAEGHTKRAGVVRAKAAAALHQTATD 350
351 AASHGGSAASAAAAAAAGGDVVADGTSGGGAAAAAGPAAAAAADDAFTFS 400
401 RLGRPRPERPSTDVRSVGVLAGGEGAAFPGGMILGTQPVSAHTAAEVSVP 450
451 HELPGQDVEGGSEMDFNESRRASDAGDLGASQHPMLGGPSAGASAEPTAH 500
501 GYTTTATAAAAAADGTQPEPEVPGTPSYADPGTPDRLGALPGPFTPGPTP 550
551 FREAANAAMSTAASGGAGGGGGGGANRAASGLGGDPTFTRRSLMAQRLGT 600
601 SSVQFARAHEHPGFHPYRIVLGHVRDRLAATRRRMEDLLSGREPAGEAHG 650
651 GVGAGGGGGGGAAPWYESEDELAEPLMACYWSLWECGGGVIADGRLLDLI 700
701 RRVYTFGMCLMKLDLRQESTRHAEALDAVTSYLGLGSYLEWSEDQKIEWL 750
751 TKELQGRRPLIPADMPMSAEVREVLDTFKVAAHLGRDNLGAYVISMTKGA 800
801 SDVMAVELLQREARMQVGAEAGGRGGGGPEDGGSLRVVPLFETLEDLDAA 850
851 EDVMTRLLTNPWYREHLRAVHGDAQEVMLGYSDSGKDAGRLAANWALYKC 900
901 QERLVAITKANNVKLTLFHGRGGTVGRGGGPTHIAIQSQPPGSVEGTFRI 950
951 TEQGEMVQAKFGISGVALSQLETYTTAVLLATMRPPSPPRREEWRAVMEM 1000
1001 LSRVSCESYRNIVHHSPLFLRYFKHATPEAELGNLYIGSRPARRRNKDAS 1050
1051 ISTLRAIPWIFAWTQNRLILPSWLGIGAALTAAMTQGHLPTLQAMYREWP 1100
1101 FFGSTVDLIEMILAKTDPRIAALYEEVLVNDPEEKKLGAELRERLQRCQG 1150
1151 AILKVTGHENLLSNNPTLSKLISMRSPFVDPINILQVEVLRRLRQDPNNM 1200
1201 RLRDALLISINGIAAGMRNTG 1221

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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