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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.21 (see score help below)

   1  MDREERKTINQGQEDEMEIYGYNLSRWKLAIVSLGVICSGGFLLLLLYWM    50
51 PEWRVKATCVRAAIKDCEVVLLRTTDEFKMWFCAKIRVLSLETYPVSSPK 100
101 SMSNKLSNGHAVCLIENPTEENRHRISKYSQTESQQIRYFTHHSVKYFWN 150
151 DTIHNFDFLKGLDEGVSCTSIYEKHSAGLTKGMHAYRKLLYGVNEIAVKV 200
201 PSVFKLLIKEVLNPFYIFQLFSVILWSTDEYYYYALAIVVMSIVSIVSSL 250
251 YSIRKQYVMLHDMVATHSTVRVSVCRVNEEIEEIFSTDLVPGDVMVIPLN 300
301 GTIMPCDAVLINGTCIVNESMLTGESVPVTKTNLPNPSVDVKGIGDELYN 350
351 PETHKRHTLFCGTTVIQTRFYTGELVKAIVVRTGFSTSKGQLVRSILYPK 400
401 PTDFKLYRDAYLFLLCLVAVAGIGFIYTIINSILNEVQVGVIIIESLDII 450
451 TITVPPALPAAMTAGIVYAQRRLKKIGIFCISPQRINICGQLNLVCFDKT 500
501 GTLTEDGLDLWGIQRVENARFLSPEENVCNEMLVKSQFVACMATCHSLTK 550
551 IEGVLSGDPLDLKMFEAIGWILEEATEEETALHNRIMPTVVRPPKQLLPE 600
601 STPAGNQEMELFELPATYEIGIVRQFPFSSALQRMSVVARVLGDRKMDAY 650
651 MKGAPEAIAGLCKPETVPVDFQNVLEDFTKQGFRVIALAHRKLESKLTWH 700
701 KVQNISRDAIENNMDFMGLIIMQNKLKQETPAVLEDLHKANIRTVMVTGD 750
751 SMLTAVSVARDCGMILPQDKVIIAEALPPKDGKVAKINWHYADSLTQCSH 800
801 PSAIDPEAIPVKLVHDSLEDLQMTRYHFAMNGKSFSVILEHFQDLVPKLM 850
851 LHGTVFARMAPDQKTQLIEALQNVDYFVGMCGDGANDCGALKRAHGGISL 900
901 SELEASVASPFTSKTPSISCVPNLIREGRAALITSFCVFKFMALYSIIQY 950
951 FSVTLLYSILSNLGDFQFLFIDLAIILVVVFTMSLNPAWKELVAQRPPSG 1000
1001 LISGALLFSVLSQIIICIGFQSLGFFWVKQQPWYEVWHPKSDACNTTGSG 1050
1051 FWNSSHVDNETELDEHNIQNYENTTVFFISSFQYLIVAIAFSKGKPFRQP 1100
1101 CYKNYFFVFSVIFLYIFILFIMLYPVASVDQVLQIVCVPYQWRVTMLIIV 1150
1151 LVNAFVSITVEESVDRWGKCCLPWALGCRKKTPKAKYMYLAQELLVDPEW 1200
1201 PPKPQTTTEAKALVKENGSCQIITIT 1226

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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