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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.99 (see score help below)

   1  MKVIDEKPEDEEEEKDSGSKCKTPSSCTKKRVREKEEDLPPICHGWLIVC    50
51 EGNPTKMMNKEVKLPWHAGYCVFEPRQSTMSCYKQEYPFIAGRMLHRNRT 100
101 VRMDGDRSAFARHWGLLPEHYPSPPITGPHTIARSYTRPPKDRLPTKERF 150
151 FSISRIPSRLTKFSTVRGMSIEFFDAIHDETNSGGAQVGGESLDRRGWSG 200
201 ASTGNRTTLTASVHNNLMNGRMSSSSHNLSTRLSGSTQNLNQPTNAYGNL 250
251 LSRPFRSNPLKRTKSVSKMEKSLAEANQHSLHRVDASNTPSRDSSLYAQP 300
301 PARRHLSQPAREGSLRACRSHESLLSSAHSTHMIELNEDNRLHPVHPSIF 350
351 EVPNCFRLASTYYSCRTPLERAKWMENLRKTMNPRRDQQRRTENSMLIWI 400
401 LEAKGLPAKRKYYCEMTLDKTLYAKTSSKARTDNVFWGENFEFMMLPKID 450
451 EVCVSLFRESDSKKKKDTLIGYVTIGIDQLSSRSPVERWYTVNTSHSDSG 500
501 TSRIASALGGKSSSQESPSLRIKARWQSVHILPLRAYDNLLETLCYNYLP 550
551 LCEQLEPVLNVRDKEDLATSLVRVMYKHNLAKEFLCDLIMKEVEKLDNDH 600
601 LMFRGNTLATKAMESFMKLVADDYLDSTLSDFIKTVLQCEDSCEVDPQKL 650
651 GNVSNSSLEKNRALLMRYVEVAWTKILNNVHQLPKNLRDVFSALRCRLEA 700
701 QNREALADTLISSSIFLRFLCPAILSPSLFNLVSEYPSPTNARNLTLIAK 750
751 TLQNLANFSKFGGKEPHMEFMNEFVDREWHRMKDFLLRISSESKSGPEKN 800
801 ADAIVDAGKELSLIATYLEEAWTPLLQEKNGNKHPLSNVKSVLSELAECK 850
851 RRSDNGVFHSPMVQQPSSDYENSPQQHVVPRHENVPAYRSTPPTGQATVL 900
901 GRSTNRPATHLLTSDDYVLSSAFQTPSLRPGGTRLSDETGTSSSRTSDKT 950
951 TSSAEIRDDTDSDFELREDRGRGGRNRKRLPRTDASPSSSQQASSGYLSN 1000
1001 NPSRSSYSNSSSSSPVERMAALSIANPVFGPGPSSGYAIPAEPKEIVYQK 1050
1051 RASPPPYDPDVHNYHYQPMQVYAVPPDCQVSPRTQATGGVNAQNRLSLPR 1100
1101 TNPRASRNSTLLRPSVVNVPDDWDRTSDYWRDRGENNYRSQLESQVESQA 1150
1151 REIERLMRENIELKSKMMSSTKTVDSKRSDSGASEDSYDSLSSLDRPSRQ 1200
1201 SLVVVPN 1207

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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