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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.33 (see score help below)

   1  MFGRLLLLGILFHVVFLKSIFDIYFVTPLIHGMKQYSAGEAPAKRLFLIV    50
  51  GDGLRPDKLLQPHSEKVIGEEQTYAAPFLRSIIQNNGTFGVSHTRVPTES   100
 101  RPGHVALIAGFYEDVSAVTKGWKKNPVNFDSVFNQSRHTYSFGSEDILPM   150
 151  FSEGASDPSRVDTFMYSSELEDFSSNGIVLDEWVFDRLDELLAQSLEDKE   200
 201  LWDMLHRDKIVFFLHLLGIDTIGHNKHPDSVEYVENIQYIDGKIQELVDK   250
 251  MNNYYNNDGASSWVFTADHGMSDFGSHGDGNLDNTRTPIIAWGAGIQSPT   300
 301  HEKNYGHDEYSLPWNLTEIKRIDIQQADIAALMSYLVGLNFPVNSVGQIP   350
 351  LDYLDCSSRRKAEVALMNALEIGEQYNLKSASKDQTSIFFRPYSPLRNYT   400
 401  EVQASFYNSVIADIESGEYEIAIEHCFHFSQTVLSGLRYLQRYDWLLLRS   450
 451  IVFFGYLSWIGYVICFVFSLNIEPSSKIVKPVSVVKRVAFNIPFLLICIF   500
 501  FYIQSSPPFYYGYALFPTIFLQLIHSIFPNTKLGFKNFLTVAKQKHGFSL   550
 551  LKILFISLCILCLLQFIVYSYFHREGFSVILMGLAAWPWLLHADYAFSHK   600
 601  TISVSWSVLTSLLCFFTILPVNKKESLLFIFAGGFAMSVAGVFYILYRRN   650
 651  QAFQYSSTVTNKQLVLQVLIIMATVPVTLKIADSLQRNIAIPPILRLVAF   700
 701  GLFITSYIIPSHHIRSCKHYFLDRLAILFLTFSPTMCMLSISFEALFYVV   750
 751  LFITLGLWMELETELQKYTEQLHPEYSRKKDAKFHLSLSHIRISLFFYIF   800
 801  INVAFFGTGNVASLSTFALDSVKRFIPVFNPVTQGALLMYTILVPFIALS   850
 851  AAFGIMNKRLGGIQQVTFFLAVGMADIVTINFFYLVKDEGSWKDIGVSIS   900
 901  HFCISNFLILFITALEHASAILCKNITYTIHEKVN                  935

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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