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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.65 (see score help below)

   1  MGEPEEVMPGSGAVFTFGKTQFAENIPSKFWFRNDVPTFLSCGDEHTAVV    50
51 TGNNKLYMFGSNNWGQLGLGSKSTVSKPTCVKALKPEKVKFAACGRNHTL 100
101 VSTEGGKVYAAGGNNEGQLGLGDTEERSTFHLISFFTSQRKIKQLSAGSN 150
151 TSAALTEDGELFMWGDNSEGQIGLENVTNVCVPQQVTVGKPISWISCGYY 200
201 HSAFVTTEGQLYTFGEPECGKLGLPNQLLVNHRMPQPVPGIPGKVVQVAC 250
251 GGGHTVVLTEKAVYTFGLGQFGQLGLGTFLFETSVPKAIEHIKDQKISFI 300
301 ACGENHTALITDMGLMYTFGDGRHGKLGLGLENSTNQFIPTLCSNFLRFI 350
351 VQLVSCGGCHTLVFATPRLGGTEEMELKEINKSCFSAATSLSLSNLSSGI 400
401 VLHQTLSARVRRREREKSPDSFQMTRTLPPIDGIPMPPVCFSPSPIPFYM 450
451 AASNWSGKMTPEKEGLTQPEPDYFRDNMAKGKETDNSSATDSESLGETTD 500
501 VLNMTHMMSLNSNDKSLKLSPIDKQKKQETIEKLKQHTAHFGNDDSKGCA 550
551 SEEMSKTVKEGKAYKQLLAKGIYMTQAAMTMEAFSDEDIGNDSGQPGPRA 600
601 DTHAEGVQRKIFSCESKHGLYPPDFKAIAKESDGGQSQKDPEAEETVSEK 650
651 ENELAEMAGLQARRQSEENLRNINMFFDDLPNRDVNIEDEESKDFVKDSR 700
701 RNKQDVIFDSERESIEEPDSYLEGESESQQGTTDGFEQPESVEFSSGEKE 750
751 DDDEVETDQNLWYSRKFIEQGHKEETEHILSKFMAKYDFKCDHLSEIPEE 800
801 QEGAEDSEGSGIEEQEVEANENVEVPAGKEEKEIEILSDDLTDRAEDHEF 850
851 SEDEEPEDMAEELDEDLESKKNVPADVASDNSLKKDETTKQEKRAICEYN 900
901 ENPKGNMHYHAKSSSSEVLNDSESTPNKDVKKSKKIFLFKRMSLMSQKSM 950
951 QSNNEPLPEIKPIGDQIAFKGNKKDANQNHMGQNHQDTSPPDMERRSKSC 1000
1001 TIL 1003

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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