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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.88 (see score help below)

   1  MKHLYGLFHYNPMMLGLESLPDPTDTWEIIETIGKGTYGKVYKVTNKRDG    50
51 SLAAVKILDPVSDMDEEIEAEYNILQFLPNHPNVVKFYGMFYKADHCVGG 100
101 QLWLVLELCNGGSVTELVKGLLRCGQRLDEAMISYILYGALLGLQHLHNN 150
151 RIIHRDVKGNNILLTTEGGVKLVDFGVSAQLTSTRLRRNTSVGTPFWMAP 200
201 EVIACEQQYDSSYDARCDVWSLGITAIELGDGDPPLFDMHPVKTLFKIPR 250
251 NPPPTLLHPEKWCEEFNHFISQCLIKDFERRPSVTHLLDHPFIKGVHGKV 300
301 LFLQKQLAKVLQDQKHQNPVAKTRHERMHTRRPYHVEDAEKYCLEDDLVN 350
351 LEVLDEDTIIHQLQKRYADLLIYTYVGDILIALNPFQNLSIYSPQFSRLY 400
401 HGVKRASNPPHIFASADAAYQCMVTLSKDQCIVISGESGSGKTESAHLIV 450
451 QHLTFLGKANNQTLREKILQVNSLVEAFGNSCTAINDNSSRFGKYLEMMF 500
501 TPTGVVMGARISEYLLEKSRVIKQAAREKNFHIFYYIYAGLHHQKKLSDF 550
551 RLPEEKPPRYIADETGRVMHDITSKESYRRQFEAIQHCFRIIGFTDKEVH 600
601 SVYRILAGILNIGNIEFAAISSQHQTDKSEVPNAEALQNAASVLCISPEE 650
651 LQEALTSHCVVTRGETIIRANTVDRAADVRDAMSKALYGRLFSWIVNRIN 700
701 TLLQPDENICSAGGGMNVGILDIFGFENFQRNSFEQLCINIANEQIQYYF 750
751 NQHVFALEQMEYQNEGIDAVPVEYEDNRPLLDMFLQKPLGLLALLDEESR 800
801 FPQATDQTLVDKFEDNLRCKYFWRPKGVELCFGIQHYAGKVLYDASGVLE 850
851 KNRDTLPADVVVVLRTSENKLLQQLFSIPLTKTGNLAQTRARITVASSSL 900
901 PPHFSAGKAKVDTLEVIRHPEETTNMKRQTVASYFRYSLMDLLSKMVVGQ 950
951 PHFVRCIKPNDDREALQFSRERVLAQLRSTGILETVSIRRQGYSHRILFE 1000
1001 EFVKRYYYLAFTAHQTPLASKESCVAILEKSRLDHWVLGKTKVFLKYYHV 1050
1051 EQLNLLLREVIGRVVVLQAYTKGWLGARRYKRVREKREKGAIAIQSAWRG 1100
1101 YDARRKFKKISNRRNESAAHNQAGDTSNQSSGPHSPVAAGTRGSAEVQDC 1150
1151 SEPGDHKVLRGSVHRRSHSQAESNNGRTQTSSNSPAVTEKNGHSQAQSSP 1200
1201 KGCDIFAGHANKHSVSGTDLLSSRICHPAPDQQGLSLWGAPQKPGSENGL 1250
1251 AQKHRTPRRRCQQPKMLSSPEDTMYYNQLNGTLEYQGSKRKPRKLGQIKV 1300
1301 LDGEDEYYKSLSPVDCIPEENNSAHPSFFSSSSKGDSFAQH 1341

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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