SBC logo Authors: Amine Heddad, Andrea Krings, Markus Brameier and Bob MacCallum, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Sweden.

NucPred

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The NucPred score for your sequence is 0.95 (see score help below)

   1  MPWLSGGRRRRRGQPREAPREPPPSAQPQREPPPAPPAAVPTPPAPSAPP    50
51 PRARESAELPLPAGWEEARDYDGRVFYIDHNTRQTSWIDPRDRITKPLTF 100
101 ADCVGDELPLGWETVYDKQIGVYYMDHINKLTQIEDPREQWRREQERMLK 150
151 EYLIVAQEALNAKKEIYQIKQQRFELAQEEYQQLHKMCEDDSRSYASSFS 200
201 GYSTNTKYDPHQIKAEIASRRDRLSRLKRELTQMKQELQYKEKGVETLQE 250
251 IDRKMSSTHTSYKLDEAQAIMSELRTIKKAICTGEKERRDLMHSLAKLTD 300
301 SFKNSCSVTDSLVDFPHHVGVPGDAGVPQQFCDAGSQTDIIGEFVFDDKT 350
351 RLVDRVRLNWQYEEARKRVANIQQQLARLDNESWPSTAEADRDRLQLIKE 400
401 KEALLQELQLIIAQRRSAGDVARLEEERERLEEELRRARATSAQGATERI 450
451 LLQEKRNCLLMQLEEATRLTSYLQSQLKSLCASTLTVSSGSSRGSLASSR 500
501 GSLASSRGSLSSVSFTDIYGLPQYEKPDAEGSQLLRFDLIPFDSLGRDAP 550
551 FSEPPGPSGFHKQRRSLDTPQSLASLSSRSSLSSLSPPSSPLDTPFLPAS 600
601 RDSPLAQLADSCEGPGLGALDRLRAHASAMGDEDLPGMAALQPHGVPGDG 650
651 EGPHERGPPPASAPVGGTVTLREDSAKRLERRARRISACLSDYSLASDSG 700
701 VFEPLTKRNEDAEEPAYGDTASNGDPQIHVGLLRDSGSECLLVHVLQLKN 750
751 PAGLAVKEDCKVHIRVYLPPLDSGTPNTYCSKALEFQVPLVFNEVFRIPV 800
801 HSSALTLKSLQLYVCSVTPQLQEELLGIAQINLADYDSLSEMQLRWHSVQ 850
851 VFTSSEPSRTREAGCAGESSARDPAHTISISGKTDAVTVLLARTTAQLQA 900
901 VERELAEERAKLEYTEEEVLEMERKEEQAEAISERSWQADSVDSGCSNCT 950
951 QTSPPYPEPCCMGIDSILGHPFAAQAGPYSPEKFQPSPLKVDKETNTEDL 1000
1001 FLEEAASLVKERPSRRARGSPFVRSGTIVRSQTFSPGARSQYVCRLYRSD 1050
1051 SDSSTLPRKSPFVRNTLERRTLRYKQSCRSSLAELMARTSLDLELDLQAS 1100
1101 RTRQRQLNEELCALRELRQRLEDAQLRGQTDLPPWVLRDERLRGLLREAE 1150
1151 RQTRQTKLDYRHEQAAEKMLKKASKEIYQLRGQSHKEPIQVQTFREKIAF 1200
1201 FTRPRINIPPLPADDV 1216

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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