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NucPred

Fetching Q6X862 from www.uniprot.org...

The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.55 (see score help below)

   1  MDLLSGTYIFAVLLACVVFHSGAQEKNYTIREEMPENVLIGDLLKDLNLS    50
51 LIPNKSLTTAMQFKLVYKTGDVPLIRIEEDTGEIFTTGARIDREKLCAGI 100
101 PRDEHCFYEVEVAILPDEIFRLVKIRFLIEDINDNAPLFPATVINISIPE 150
151 NSAINSKYTLPAAVDPDVGINGVQNYELIKSQNMFGLDVIETPEGDKMPQ 200
201 LIVQKELDREKKDTYVMKVKVEDGGFPQRSSTAILQVSVTDTNDNHPVFK 250
251 ETEIEVSIPENAPVGTSVTQLHATDADIGENAKIHFSFSNLVSNIARRLF 300
301 HLNATTGLITIKEPLDREETPNHKLLVLASDGGLMPARAMVLVNVTDVND 350
351 NVPSIDIRYIVNPVNDTVVLSENIPLNTKIALITVTDKDADHNGRVTCFT 400
401 DHEIPFRLRPVFSNQFLLETAAYLDYESTKEYAIKLLAADAGKPPLNQSA 450
451 MLFIKVKDENDNAPVFTQSFVTVSIPENNSPGIQLTKVSATDADSGPNAE 500
501 INYLLGPDAPPEFSLDRRTGMLTVVKKLDREKEDKYLFTILAKDNGVPPL 550
551 TSNVTVFVSIIDQNDNSPVFTHNEYNFYVPENLPRHGTVGLITVTDPDYG 600
601 DNSAVTLSILDENDDFTIDSQTGVIRPNISFDREKQESYTFYVKAEDGGR 650
651 VSRSSSAKVTINVVDVNDNKPVFIVPPSNYSYELVLPSTNPGTVVFQVIA 700
701 VDNDTGMNAEVRYSIVGGNTRDLFAIDQETGNITLMEKCDVTDLGLHRVL 750
751 VKANDLGQPDSLFSVVIVNLFVNESVTNATLINELVRKSIEAPVTPNTEI 800
801 ADVSSPTNDYVKILVAAVAGTITVVVVIFITAVVRCRQAPHLKAAQKNKQ 850
851 NSEWATPNPENRQMIMMKKRKKKKKHSPKNLLLNFVTIEETKADDVDSDG 900
901 NRVTLDLPIDLEEQTMGKYDWVTTPTTFKPDSPDLARHYKSASPQPAFQI 950
951 QPETPLNSKHHIIQELPLDNTFVACDSISKCSSSSSDPYSVSDCGYPVTT 1000
1001 FEVPVSVHTRPPMKEVVRSCTPMKESTTMEIWIHPQPQRKSEGKVAGKSQ 1050
1051 RRVTFHLPEGSQESSSDGGLGDHDAGSLTSTSHGLPLGYPQEEYFDRATP 1100
1101 SNRTEGDGNSDPESTFIPGLKKAAEITVQPTVEEASDNCTQECLIYGHSD 1150
1151 ACWMPASLDHSSSLQAQASALCHSPPLSQASTQHHSPPVTQTIALCHSPP 1200
1201 VTQTIALCHSPPPIQVSALRHSPPLVQATALHHSPPSAQASALCYSPPLA 1250
1251 QAAAISHSSPLPQVIALHRSQAQSSVSLQQGWVQGADGLCSVDQGVQGSA 1300
1301 TSQFYTMSERLHASDDSIKVIPLTTFTPRQQARPSRGDSPIMEEHPL 1347

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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