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NucPred

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

   1  MAAAAGAAAAAAAEGEAPAEMGALLLEKETRGATERVHGSLGDTPRSEET    50
51 LPKATPDSLEPAGPSSPASVTVTVGDEGADTPVGATPLIGDESENLEGDG 100
101 DLRGGRILLGHATKSFPSSPSKGGSCPSRAKMSMTGAGKSPPSVQSLAMR 150
151 LLSMPGAQGAAAAGSEPPPATTSPEGQPKVHRARKTMSKPGNGQPPVPEK 200
201 RPPEIQHFRMSDDVHSLGKVTSDLAKRRKLNSGGGLSEELGSARRSGEVT 250
251 LTKGDPGSLEEWETVVGDDFSLYYDSYSVDERVDSDSKSEVEALTEQLSE 300
301 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDEESGNQSDRSGSSGRRKAKKKWRKDS 350
351 PWVKPSRKRRKREPPRAKEPRGVNGVGSSGPSEYMEVPLGSLELPSEGTL 400
401 SPNHAGVSNDTSSLETERGFEELPLCSCRMEAPKIDRISERAGHKCMATE 450
451 SVDGELSGCNAAILKRETMRPSSRVALMVLCETHRARMVKHHCCPGCGYF 500
501 CTAGTFLECHPDFRVAHRFHKACVSQLNGMVFCPHCGEDASEAQEVTIPR 550
551 GDGVTPPAGTAAPAPPPLSQDVPGRADTSQPSARMRGHGEPRRPPCDPLA 600
601 DTIDSSGPSLTLPNGGCLSAVGLPLGPGREALEKALVIQESERRKKLRFH 650
651 PRQLYLSVKQGELQKVILMLLDNLDPNFQSDQQSKRTPLHAAAQKGSVEI 700
701 CHVLLQAGANINAVDKQQRTPLMEAVVNNHLEVARYMVQRGGCVYSKEED 750
751 GSTCLHHAAKIGNLEMVSLLLSTGQVDVNAQDSGGWTPIIWAAEHKHIEV 800
801 IRMLLTRGADVTLTDNEENICLHWASFTGSAAIAEVLLNARCDLHAVNYH 850
851 GDTPLHIAARESYHDCVLLFLSRGANPELRNKEGDTAWDLTPERSDVWFA 900
901 LQLNRKLRLGVGNRAIRTEKIICRDVARGYENVPIPCVNGVDGEPCPEDY 950
951 KYISENCETSTMNIDRNITHLQHCTCVDDCSSSNCLCGQLSIRCWYDKDG 1000
1001 RLLQEFNKIEPPLIFECNQACSCWRNCKNRVVQSGIKVRLQLYRTAKMGW 1050
1051 GVRALQTIPQGTFICEYVGELISDAEADVREDDSYLFDLDNKDGEVYCID 1100
1101 ARYYGNISRFINHLCDPNIIPVRVFMLHQDLRFPRIAFFSSRDIRTGEEL 1150
1151 GFDYGDRFWDIKSKYFTCQCGSEKCKHSAEAIALEQSRLARLDPHPELLP 1200
1201 ELGSLPPVNT 1210

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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