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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.93 (see score help below)

   1  MSAVVAQTLHVFGLRSHVANNIFYFDEQIIIFPSGNHCVKYNVDQKWQKF    50
51 IPGSEKSQGMLALSISPNRRYLAISETVQEKPAITIYELSSIPCRKRKVL 100
101 NNFDFQVQKFISMAFSPDSKYLLAQTSPPESNLVYWLWEKQKVMAIVRID 150
151 TQNNPVYQVSFSPQDNTQVCVTGNGMFKLLRFAEGTLKQTSFQRGEPQNY 200
201 LAHTWVADDKIVVGTDTGKLFLFESGDQRWETSIMVKEPTNGSKSLDVIQ 250
251 ESESLIEFPPVSSPLPSYEQMVAASSHSQMSMPQVFAIAAYSKGFACSAG 300
301 PGRVLLFEKMEEKDFYRESREIRIPVDPQSNDPSQSDKQDVLCLCFSPSE 350
351 ETLVASTSKNQLYSITMSLTEISKGEPAHFEYLMYPLHSAPITGLATCIR 400
401 KPLIATCSLDRSIRLWNYETNTLELFKEYQEEAYSISLHPSGHFIVVGFA 450
451 DKLRLMNLLIDDIRSFKEYSVRGCGECSFSNGGHLFAAVNGNVIHVYTTT 500
501 SLENISSLKGHTGKIRSIVWNADDSKLISGGTDGAVYEWNLSTGKRETEC 550
551 VLKSCSYNCVTVSPDAKIIFAVGSDHTLKEIADSLILREISAFDVTYTAI 600
601 VISHSGRMMFVGTSVGTIRAMKYPLPLQKEFNEYQAHAGPITKMLLTFDD 650
651 QFLLTAAEDGCLFTWKVFDKDGRGIKREREVGFAEEVLVTKTDMEEKAQV 700
701 MLELKTRVEELKMENEYQLRLKDMNYSEKIKELTDKFIQEMESLKTKNQV 750
751 LRTEKEKQDVYHHEHIEDLLDKQSRELQDMECCNNQKLLLEYEKYQELQL 800
801 KSQRMQEEYEKQLRDNDETKSQALEELTEFYEAKLQEKTTLLEEAQEDVR 850
851 QQLREFEETKKQIEEDEDREIQDIKTKYEKKLRDEKESNLRLKGETGIMR 900
901 KKFSSLQKEIEERTNDIETLKGEQMKLQGVIKSLEKDIQGLKREIQERDE 950
951 TIQDKEKRIYDLKKKNQELGKFKFVLDYKIKELKKQIEPRENEIRVMKEQ 1000
1001 IQEMEAELENFHKQNTQLELNITELWQKLRATDQEMRRERQKERDLEALV 1050
1051 KRFKTDLHNCVAYIQEPRLLKEKVRGLFEKYVQRADMVEIAGLNTDLQQE 1100
1101 YTRQREHLERNLATLKKKVVKEGELHRTDYVRIMQENVSLIKEINELRRE 1150
1151 LKFTRSQVYDLEAALKLTKKVRPQEVSETEPSRDMLSTAPTARLNEQEET 1200
1201 GRIIEMQRLEIQRLRDQIQEQEQVTGFHTLAGVRLPSLSNSEVDLEVKTN 1250

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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