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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.89 (see score help below)

   1  MASAGTEHYSIGLRRGNSFKQRHPSGTVSASPSEKPSEVKVWSQAHQQVK    50
51 PIWKLEKKHVGTLSAGLGTSFLGVPSQPAYFLCPSTLCSSGTTAVIAGHS 100
101 NPCYLQSLPNLFSNTLLYRRTNVRQKPYQQLESFCLRSSPSEKRSFSLPQ 150
151 KGLPVSVTANKATSSTVFPMAQPMATSPTDPYLSLAAAGENPSRKSLASA 200
201 ISGKIASPLSYKPMLNNNSFMRPNSTKVPLSQATDGLKPVSSPKIQPVSW 250
251 HHSGGTGDCVPQPGDHKVPQNIATVLDDVTAPITPSIPSTLNISTASVTS 300
301 SQCSQSNFRMEAHPCGLDENPDSQSATKEVHFTEAVRKLAEKGLEKMPRQ 350
351 GYQFEQACFVNPSFQWGLLNRSRRWKPLMGQRFPQEDIGLDSAILPGTSD 400
401 TLGLDSTVFCTKRISIHLLASHVHGLNPSPACGSAVDPQVLGEDRAPVPP 450
451 SSLQPLGVAEVATRLSSVHLDQPGKEPEEAKDLNSCTKGGGSATDLQPNQ 500
501 VEPEDTEDELGDGLEDSCSHDENEEEEGDSECSSLSVVSPSESVALISRN 550
551 CVDLMSKSLPNHEKVVRPALIYSLFPNVTPTIYFGTRDERVEKLPWEQRR 600
601 LLRWKMSTVTPNIVKQTIGRSHFKISKRNDDWLGCWGHHMKSPGFRSIRE 650
651 HQKLNHFPGSFQIGRKDRLWRNLSRMQSRFGKKEFSFFPQSFILPQDSKL 700
701 LRKAWESSSRQKWIVKPPASARGIGIQVIHKWSQLPKRRPLLVQRYLHKP 750
751 YLISGSKFDLRIYVYVTSYDPLRIYLFSDGLVRFASCKYSPSMKSLSNKF 800
801 MHLTNYSVNKKNTEYQANADETACQGHKWALKALWNYLSQKGINSDAIWE 850
851 KIKDVVVKTIISSEPYVTNLLKLYVRRPYSCHELFGFDIMLDENLKPWVL 900
901 EVNISPSLHSNSPLDISIKGQMIRDLLNLAGFVLPNMEDIISSSSSPSSS 950
951 SGSSTSLPSSPRDKCQMTPEHFTAQKMKKAYYLTQKIPDQDFYASVLDVL 1000
1001 TPDDVRVLVEMEDEFSRRGQFERIFPSRISSRYLRFFEQPRYFNILTTQW 1050
1051 EQKYHGNKLKGVDLLRNWCYKGFHTGIVSDSAPLWSLPTSLMTTSKGDGT 1100
1101 PNSASKSRKKSASEGTTLSSEDRSTPKSKKSQAGLSPISRKTLSSRSNEN 1150
1151 TSKQSKRSTPGLPVLKYSGQSSRLSAASASQSVTDSRLTAVSS 1193

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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