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 0.95 (see score help below)

   1  MAGNDCGALLDEELSSFFLNYLSDTQGGESGEEQLCADLPELDLSQLDAS    50
  51  DFDSATCFGELQWCPETSETEPSQYSPDDSEFFQIDSENEALLAALTKTL   100
 101  DDIPEDDVGLAAFPGLDEGDTPSCTPASPAPLSVPPSPALERLLSPVSEV   150
 151  DELSLLQKLLLATSSPTASSDALKDGATWSQTSLSSRSQRPCVKVDGTQD   200
 201  KKTPMLRSQSRPCTELHKHLTSVLPCPRGKACSPPPHPSPQLLSKEDEEV   250
 251  GEDCPSPWPAPASPQDSLGQDTANPNSAQVPKDDVRAMVQLIRYMHTYCL   300
 301  PQRKLPQRASEPIPQSCSSPLRKVPPRSRQTPKAFWTEFSILRELLAQDI   350
 351  LCDVSKPYRLATPVYASLTPQSRTRPPKDSQASPAHSAMAEEVRITASPK   400
 401  STGPRPSLRPLRLEVKRDVNKPARQKREEDEEEEEEEEEEEEKEDEEEEW   450
 451  GRKRPGRGLPWTKLGRKMDSSVCPVRRSRRLNPELGPWLTFTDEPLGALP   500
 501  SMCLATETHDLEEELGGLTDSSQGQQLPLGSQIPTLESPCESGCGDTDED   550
 551  PSCPRPPSRDSPRCLMLALSQSDPLGKKSFEESLTVELCGTAGLTPPTTP   600
 601  PYKPMEEDPFKQDTKHSPGQDTAPSLPSPETLQLTATPGASHKLPKRHPE   650
 651  RSELLSHLQHATTQPVSQAGQKRPFSCSFGDHDYCQVIRPEAALQRKVLR   700
 701  SWEPIKVHLEDLAHQGATLPVETKTPRREADQNCDPTPKDSMQLRDHEIR   750
 751  ASLTKHFGLLETALEEEDLASCKSPEYDTVFEDSSSSSGESSFLLEEEEE   800
 801  EGGEEDDEGEDSGVSPPCSDHCPYQSPPSKASRQLCSRSRSSSGSSSCSS   850
 851  WSPATRKNFRLESRGPCSDGTPSARHAKKRREKAIGEGRVVYIRNLSGDM   900
 901  SSRELKKRFEVFGEIVECQVLRRSKRGQKHGFITFRCSEHAALSVRNGAT   950
 951  LRKRNEPSFHLSYGGLRHFRWPRYTDYDPTSEESLPSSGKSKYEAMDFDS  1000
1001  LLKEAQQSLH                                          1010

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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