SBC logo Authors: Amine Heddad, Andrea Krings, Markus Brameier and Bob MacCallum, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Sweden.

NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.81 (see score help below)

   1  MADAAASPVGKRLLLLFADTAASASASAPAAAAASGDPGPALRTRAWRAG    50
51 TVRAMSGAVPQDLAIFVEFDGCNWKQHSWVKVHAEEVIVLLLEGSLVWAP 100
101 REDPVLLQGIRVSIAQWPALTFTPLVDKLGLGSVVPVEYLLDRELRFLSD 150
151 ANGLHLFQMGTDSQNQILLEHAALRETVNALISDQKLQEIFSRGPYSVQG 200
201 HRVKIYQPEGEEGWLYGVVSHQDSITRLMEVSVTESGEIKSVDPRLIHVM 250
251 LMDNSAPQSEGGTLKAVKSSKGKKKRESIEGKDGRRRKSASDSGCDPASK 300
301 KLKGDRGEVDSNGSDGGEASRGPWKGGNASGEPGLDQRAKQPPSTFVPQI 350
351 NRNIRFATYTKENGRTLVVQDEPVGGDTPASFTPYSTATGQTPLAPEVGG 400
401 AENKEAGKTLEQVGQGIVASAAVVTTASSTPNTVRISDTGLAAGTVPEKQ 450
451 KGSRSQASGENSRNSILASSGFGAPLPSSSQPLTFGSGRSQSNGVLATEN 500
501 KPLGFSFGCSSAQEAQKDTDLSKNLFFQCMSQTLPTSNYFTTVSESLADD 550
551 SSSRDSFKQSLESLSSGLCKGRSVLGTDTKPGSKAGSSVDRKVPAESMPT 600
601 LTPAFPRSLLNARTPENHENLFLQPPKLSREEPSNPFLAFVEKVEHSPFS 650
651 SFASQASGSSSSATTVTSKVAPSWPESHSSADSASLAKKKPLFITTDSSK 700
701 LVSGVLGSALTSGGPSLSAMGNGRSSSPTSSLTQPIEMPTLSSSPTEERP 750
751 TVGPGQQDNPLLKTFSNVFGRHSGGFLSSPADFSQENKAPFEAVKRFSLD 800
801 ERSLACRQDSDSSTNSDLSDLSDSEEQLQAKTGLKGIPEHLMGKLGPNGE 850
851 RSAELLLGKSKGKQAPKGRPRTAPLKVGQSVLKDVSKVKKLKQSGEPFLQ 900
901 DGSCINVAPHLHKCRECRLERYRKFKEQEQDDSTVACRFFHFRRLIFTRK 950
951 GVLRVEGFLSPQQSDPDAMNLWIPSSSLAEGIDLETSKYILANVGDQFCQ 1000
1001 LVMSEKEAMMMVEPHQKVAWKRAVRGVREMCDVCETTLFNIHWVCRKCGF 1050
1051 GVCLDCYRLRKSRPRSETEEMGDEEVFSWLKCAKGQSHEPENLMPTQIIP 1100
1101 GTALYNIGDMVHAARGKWGIKANCPCISRQNKSVLRPAVTNGMSQLPSIN 1150
1151 PSASSGNETTFSGGGGPAPVTTPEPDHVPKADSTDIRSEEPLKTDSSASN 1200
1201 SNSELKAIRPPCPDTAPPSSALHWLADLATQKAKEETKEAGSLRSVLNKE 1250
1251 SHSPFGLDSFNSTAKVSPLTPKLFNSLLLGPTASNNKTEGSSLRDLLHSG 1300
1301 PGKLPQTPLDTGIPFPPVFSTSSAGVKSKASLPNFLDHIIASVVENKKTS 1350
1351 DASKRACNLTDTQKEVKEMVMGLNVLDPHTSHSWLCDGRLLCLHDPSNKN 1400
1401 NWKIFRECWKQGQPVLVSGVHKKLKSELWKPEAFSQEFGDQDVDLVNCRN 1450
1451 CAIISDVKVRDFWDGFEIICKRLRSEDGQPMVLKLKDWPPGEDFRDMMPT 1500
1501 RFEDLMENLPLPEYTKRDGRLNLASRLPSYFVRPDLGPKMYNAYGLITAE 1550
1551 DRRVGTTNLHLDVSDAVNVMVYVGIPIGEGAHDEEVLKTIDEGDADEVTK 1600
1601 QRIHDGKEKPGALWHIYAAKDAEKIRELLRKVGEEQGQENPPDHDPIHDQ 1650
1651 SWYLDQTLRKRLYEEYGVQGWAIVQFLGDAVFIPAGAPHQVHNLYSCIKV 1700
1701 AEDFVSPEHVKHCFRLTQEFRHLSNTHTNHEDKLQVKNIIYHAVKDAVGT 1750
1751 LKAHESKLARS 1761

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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