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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.58 (see score help below)

   1  MATWNASQIILNSMSNIIESPQSKPRPVMASNGASLFIPVTMEVPCDQGT    50
51 RMWWAFLASSMVTFFGGLFIILVWRTFKYLWTVCCHCGGKNKEAQKVVNV 100
101 ASSQVTDGDYKPTDDKEEVGVAEVGWMTSVKDWAGVMISAQTLTGRVLVV 150
151 TVFALSIGALMIYFIDSSNPIESCQNFYKDFTLQIDMAFNIFFLLYFGLR 200
201 FIAANDKLWFWLEVNSVVDFFTVPPVFVSVYLNRSWLGLRFLRALRLIQF 250
251 SEILQFLNILKTSNSIKLVNLCSIFISTWLTAAGFIHLVENSGDPWRNFE 300
301 NSQDLSYWECMYLLMVTMSTVGYGDVYAKTTLGRLFMVFFILGGLAMFAS 350
351 YVPEIIELIGNRKKYGGSYSAVSGRKHIVVCGHITLESVSNFLKDFLHKD 400
401 RDDVNVEIVFLHNISPNLELEALFKKHFTQVEFYQGSVLNPHDLARVKIE 450
451 SADACLILANKYCADPDAEDASNIMRVISIKNYHPKIRIITQMLQYHNKA 500
501 HLLNIPSWNWKDGDDAICLAELKLGFIAQSCLAQGLSTMLANLFSMRSFI 550
551 KIEEDTWQKYYLEGVANEMYTEYLSSAFVGLSFPAVCELCFVKLKLLMIA 600
601 IEYKSEKGESRILINPGNHMKIKEGTLGFFIASDAKEVKRAFFYCKACHD 650
651 DITDPKRIKKCACKRLEDEQPSALSPKKKQRNGGMRHSPNTSPNMMRHDP 700
701 LLMTGNDQIDNMDSSSVKRYDSTGMFHWCPAKELDKVLLTRSEAAMTVLS 750
751 GHVVVCIFGDMTSALIGVRNLVMPLRASNFHYHELKHIVFVGSLDYIKRE 800
801 WETLHNFPKVSILPGTPLSRADLRAVNINLCDMCVILSANQNNIDDTSLQ 850
851 DKECILASLNIKSMQFDDSIGLLQANSQGFTPPGMERSSPDNSPLHGVAR 900
901 QASITTGANIPIITELVNDSNVQFLDQDDDDDPDTELYLTQPFACGTAFA 950
951 VSVLDSLMSATYFNDNILTLIRTLVTGGATPELEALVAEENALRGGYSTP 1000
1001 QTLANRDRCRVAQLALYDGPFADLGDGGCYGDLYCKALKTYNMLCFGIYR 1050
1051 LRDAHISTPSQCTKRYVITNPPYEFELVPTDLIFCLMQFDHNASQSRASL 1100
1101 SHSSHSSHSSSKKSSSVTSILHTASANRQNRVKARDSRDKQKMGQAEKKW 1150
1151 YTDETENNYPRNIQIKPMSTHMANQINQYKSTSSLIPPIREVEDEC 1196

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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