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NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.72 (see score help below)

   1  MATFRNNHMKTKASVRKSFSEDVFQSVKSLLQSQKELCSVTAEDCLQQDE    50
51 HANLTEVTFLGFNEETDAAHIQDLAAVSLELPDILNSLHFCSLNENEIIC 100
101 MKNINKPLDISSDPLNQSHPSGMLCVMRVSPTSPRLRIDFIFSLLSKYAT 150
151 GIRYTLDTFLHQKHQLETTDEDDDDTNQSVSSIEDDFVTAFEHLEEEETS 200
201 KPYNDGMNITVLRSQCDAASQTVTGHHLETHDLKILISSGQQKSLAKPST 250
251 SSVNVLGHKELPSVKTSVTTSISEPWTQRSFYRSSNASDKDSDLQKTFFS 300
301 SSPAYSSESECSSPSPVIFLDEEGYQKSLKAKLELPKIPVMKDDIEDSDS 350
351 EVSEFFDSFDQFDELEQTLETCLFNKDPVIGKSSQRKGHKHGKSCMNPQK 400
401 FKFDRPALPANVRKPTPRKPESPYGNLCDAPDSPRPVKASREDSGLFSPI 450
451 RSSAFSPLGGCTPAECFCQTDIGGDRIHENHDSVYYTYEDYAKSISCEVL 500
501 GSVLRTHHTNTLSNINSIKHGENKTVTFKHGNLDQKNKSKNKSLMIKDSI 550
551 QKFAADLVEKSFGSAFKDLQKGVSSCTNALYHLAIKLTSSVLQMAFDELR 600
601 RQRAFSLKERAISGLANFLVSEALSNALKDLQYVKKQIFTNTVARFAADL 650
651 AEELVFEGIMEVCQFSYPQTPASPQCGSFDFEDKVVKLYAKDLSESVIQE 700
701 AFIELSQVDVTFTTKAAVSVSTDNIKYVSAESVVPSTQAVTFSPSFHNQA 750
751 IMVTKPVQEYKKEYTVQQALFCTSGIVTSIPVPLAGSALLPYHISSTACQ 800
801 AKAHLSSDDSNSNGDSAQVHIATKNREEKAACLRNICLPSEHNPGNQNDF 850
851 KPTNDDIEMQSSSKLPNDPAIISNFSAAVVHTIVNETLESMTSLEVTKMV 900
901 DERTDYLTKSLKEKTPPFSHCDQAVLQCSEASSNKDMFADRLSKSIIKHS 950
951 IDKSKSVIPNIDKNAVYKESLPVSGEESQLTPEKSPKFPDSQNQLTHCSL 1000
1001 SAAKDCVPECKVSMVHGSSLETLPSCPAVTGQKSDLKESAKDQPLKKHNL 1050
1051 NSTSLEALSFGQENPFPHSHTFSSTALTCVDGLHVEDKQKVRDRNVIPDT 1100
1101 PPSTPLVPSRASSEWDIKKLTKKLKGELAKEFAPATPPSTPHNSSVGSLS 1150
1151 ENEQNTIEKEEFMLKLMRSLSEEVESSESGELPEVDVKSEHSGKKVQFAE 1200
1201 ALATHILSLATEMAASHLDNKIIQEPKVKNPCLNVQSQRSVSPTFLNPSD 1250
1251 ENLKTLCNFAGDLAAEVITEAEKIAKVRNCMLFKQKKNSCYADGDEDYKV 1300
1301 EEKLDIEAVVHPREVDPFILSLPPSSCMSGLMYKYPSCESVTDEYAGHLI 1350
1351 QILKQEGGNSELIMDQYANRLAYRSVKSGLQEAAKTTKVQCNSRMFPVPS 1400
1401 SQVKTNKELLMFSNKEHHQEADKKRQSKRNEGYFCKNQTCERTLDPYRNE 1450
1451 VSQLYSFSTSLVHSITKDAKEELTASLVGLPKSLTDSCLFEKSGYEEDNE 1500
1501 CHVTPELPKSLQPSSQNHRFYHSTGSLNGYGCGDNVVQAVEQYAKKVVDD 1550
1551 TLELTLGSTVFRVSETTKSADRVTYAEKLSPLTGQACRYCDLKELHNCTG 1600
1601 NSSQHFFRQGSLASSKPASNPKFSSRYQKSRIFHLSVPQIHVNLDKKAVL 1650
1651 AEKIVAEAIEKAERELSSTSLAADSGIGQEGASFAESLATETMTAAVTNV 1700
1701 GHAVSSSKEIEDFQSTESVSSQQMNLSIGDDSTGSWSNLSFEDEHQDESS 1750
1751 SFHHLSESNGNSSSWSSLGLEGDLYEDNLSFPTSDSDGPDDKDEEHEDEV 1800
1801 EGLGQDGKTLLITNIDMEPCTVDPQLRIILQWLIASEAEVAELYFHDSAN 1850
1851 KEFMLLSKQLQEKGWKVGDLLQAVLQYYEVMEKASSEERCKSLFDWLLEN 1900
1901 A 1901

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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