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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.33 (see score help below)

   1  LGFDPPHQSDTRTIYIANRFPQNGLYTPQKFIDNRIISSKYTVWNFVPKN    50
51 LFEQFRRVANFYFLIIFLVQLMIDTPTSPITSGLPLFFVITVTAIKQGYE 100
101 DWLRHNSDNEVNGAPVYVVRSGGLVKTRSKNIRVGDIVRIAKDEIFPADL 150
151 VLLSSDRLDGSCHVTTASLDGETNLKTHVAVPETAVLQTVANLDTLVAVI 200
201 ECQQPEADLYRFMGRMIITQQMEEIVRPLGPESLLLRGARLKNTKEIFGV 250
251 AVYTGMETKMALNYKSKSQKRSAVEKSMNTFLIIYLIILISEAIISTILK 300
301 YTWQAEEKWDEPWYNQKTEHQRNSSKILRFISDFLAFLVLYNFIIPISLY 350
351 VTVEMQKFLGSFFIGWDLDLYHEESDQKAQVNTSDLNEELGQVEYVFTDK 400
401 TGTLTENEMQFRECSIHGMKYQEINGRLVPEGPTPDSSEGNLSYLSSLSH 450
451 VNSLSHLTSSSSFRTSPENDTELIKEHDLFFKAVSLCHTVQISSVQTDGI 500
501 GDGPWQSSLAPSQLEYYASSPDEKALVEAAARIGIVFVGNTEETMEVKIL 550
551 GKLERYKLLHVLEFDSDRRRMSVIVQAPSGERFLFAKGAESSILPKCIGG 600
601 EIEKTRIHVDEFALKGLRTLCVAYRQFTSKEYEVIDRRLFEARTALQQRE 650
651 EKLADVFHYIEKDLILLGATAVEDRLQDKVRETIEALRMAGIKVWVLTGD 700
701 KHETAVSVSLSCGHFHRTMNILELTNQKSDSECAEQLRQLARRITEDHVI 750
751 QHGLVVDGTSLSLALREHEKLFMEVCRNCSAVLCCRMAPLQKAKVIRLIK 800
801 ISPEKPITIGCWDGANDVSMIQEAHVGIGIMGKERRQAARNSDYAIARFK 850
851 FLSKLLFVHGHFYYIRIATLVQYFFYKNVCFITPQFLYQFYCLFSQQTLY 900
901 DSVYLTLYNICFTSLPILIYSLLEQHIDPHILQNKPTLYRDISKNRLLSI 950
951 KTFLYWTILGFSRSFIFLFGSYFLIGKDASLLGNGQMFGNWTFGTLVFTV 1000
1001 MVITVTVKMALETHFWTWINHLVTWGSIIFYFVFSLFYGGILWPFLGSQN 1050
1051 MYFVFIQLVSSGSAWFAIILMVVTCLFLDVMKKVFDRQLHPTSTEKAQLT 1100
1101 ETNSSIKCVDSLCCFPEGETTCTSVRRMLERVIGRCSPTHISRSWSASDP 1150
1151 FYTNDRSILTLSTMDSSTC 1169

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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