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 0.37 (see score help below)

   1  MILRPSATFAALSAHVLLRCLWMRVCEASGHFEMQVLSMQNVNGELQSGA    50
51 CCDGARDPAERSCAADQCDTFFRVCLKEYQSRVSSGGPCSYGSGSTPVIG 100
101 GNTFSVKPLDQTNDKTRIVLPFSFAWPRSYTLIVEALDFNNDSSTGSING 150
151 QVIEKAVQSGMINPNRQWQVLKHNGPVAQFQYQIRVTCDEHYFGFGCNKF 200
201 CRPRDDFFGHYTCDHNGNKTCLEGWAGPECNTAICKQGCSIEHGSCKVPG 250
251 NCRCLYGWQGEYCDQCIPHPGCVHGTCIEPWQCLCDTNWGGQLCDKDLNT 300
301 CGTLQPCLNGGTCSNTGPDKYHCACPDGYSGQNCERADNACLSEPCLNGG 350
351 LCVESSLGFECQCAAGWTGPSCNINEDDCSPNPCNHSGVCVDLVDGFKCI 400
401 CPVQWTGKTCLIDANECEESPCVNAHSCRNLIGGYFCECLPGWTGQNCDI 450
451 NVNDCHGQCLNGGLCKDLVNGYRCVCAAGFAGDRCERDVDECASRPCLNG 500
501 GRCQDTLNGFQCLCPPGFSGATCQLDLDYCESGPCQNGAQCFSLASDYYC 550
551 KCPEDYEGKNCSQLKDHCLITPCQVIDSCTVAVVSNSTPGGLRLISSSVC 600
601 GPHGRCRSHSHAGGHFSCDCQDGFTGTYCHENINDCESSPCLSGGTCIDK 650
651 INAYQCICADGWEGPNCETNIDDCRTNPCRDRGVCRDLVNDFYCECENGW 700
701 KGKTCHSRESQCDEDTCNNGGTCSDEGDSFKCLCSPGWEGATCNIAKNSS 750
751 CLPNPCENGATCVVTGDGFTCVCKEGWEGPTCSQNSNDCNPQPCYNSGTC 800
801 VDGDNWYRCECASGFAGPDCRININECQSSPCAFGSTCVDEINGYRCLCP 850
851 PGRTGPRCQEVTGRPCVIGGRIAVDGAKWAEDCNTCYCHKGIVTCTKLFC 900
901 GPKACRMLGSGRGDCPTGQLCVPVRDEQCFVKPCSSQGECWSAHRPAVRT 950
951 HCQPDSHCANVTFTFNKDTMPQGVTVEQVCRELRHLYVTKNVTSEFSISV 1000
1001 SCELSSAASNEIHVAIHVTENGIHGRVPVKEITDNIIDLVSKHSANSSVI 1050
1051 GSIAEVRVQRKQPQNPNVDYMVPLLVSVVTAIWVLALASVFLWCIRHHRK 1100
1101 QSSSATAINPTSPFSTPEENTANNAREHLNQIKNHIEKNASNGSLPGKEL 1150
1151 HCDDKNTVNAKIRTQFPESDASRRLQKTRFPHQPAYMLVDRDDRLSSNGT 1200
1201 DIKKHPQWTNKRDNRDLESQHRVPDSQHRDSQHSLQKMEYIV 1242

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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