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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.86 (see score help below)

   1  MPVQAAQWTEFLSCPICYNEFDENVHKPISLGCSHTVCKTCLNKLHRKAC    50
  51  PFDQTAINTDIDVLPVNFALLQLVGAQVPDHQSIKLSNLGENKHYEVAKK   100
 101  CVEDLALYLKPLSGGKGVASLNQSALSRPMQRKLVTLVNCQLVEEEGRVR   150
 151  AMRAARSLGERTVTELILQHQNPQQLSANLWAAVRARGCQFLGPAMQEEA   200
 201  LKLVLLALEDGSALSRKVLVLFVVQRLEPRFPQASKTSIGHVVQLLYRAS   250
 251  CFKVTKRDEDSSLMQLKEEFRSYEALRREHDAQIVHIAMEAGLRISPEQW   300
 301  SSLLYGDLAHKSHMQSIIDKLQSPESFAKSVQELTIVLQRTGDPANLNRL   350
 351  RPHLELLANIDPNPDAVSPTWEQLENAMVAVKTVVHGLVDFIQNYSRKGH   400
 401  ETPQPQPNSKYKTSMCRDLRQQGGCPRGTNCTFAHSQEELEKYRLRNKKI   450
 451  NATVRTFPLLNKVGVNNTVTTTAGNVISVIGSTETTGKIVPSTNGISNAE   500
 501  NSVSQLISRSTDSTLRALETVKKVGKVGANGQNAAGPSADSVTENKIGSP   550
 551  PKTPVSNVAATSAGPSNVGTELNSVPQKSSPFLTRVPVYPPHSENIQYFQ   600
 601  DPRTQIPFEVPQYPQTGYYPPPPTVPAGVAPCVPRFVRSNNVPESSLPPA   650
 651  SMPYADHYSTFSPRDRMNSSPYQPPPPQPYGPVPPVPSGMYAPVYDSRRI   700
 701  WRPPMYQRDDIIRSNSLPPMDVMHSSVYQTSLRERYNSLDGYYSVACQPP   750
 751  SEPRTTVPLPREPCGHLKTSCEEQIRRKPDQWAQYHTQKAPLVSSTLPVA   800
 801  TQSPTPPSPLFSVDFRADFSESVSGTKFEEDHLSHYSPWSCGTIGSCINA   850
 851  IDSEPKDVIANSNAVLMDLDSGDVKRRVHLFETQRRTKEEDPIIPFSDGP   900
 901  IISKWGAISRSSRTGYHTTDPVQATASQGSATKPISVSDYVPYVNAVDSR   950
 951  WSSYGNEATSSAHYVERDRFIVTDLSGHRKHSSTGDLLSLELQQAKSNSL  1000
1001  LLQREANALAMQQKWNSLDEGRHLTLNLLSKEIELRNGELQSDYTEDATD  1050
1051  TKPDRDIELELSALDTDEPDGQSEPIEEILDIQLGISSQNDQLLNGMAVE  1100
1101  NGHPVQQHQKEPPKQKKQSLGEDHVILEEQKTILPVTSCFSQPLPVSISN  1150
1151  ASCLPITTSVSAGNLILKTHVMSEDKNDFLKPVANGKMVNS           1191

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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