Predicted subcellular localization for entire proteomes


Genomes currently available Human, Arabidopsis, Fruit Fly, Worm, & Yeast.
From Here
  • predicted subcellular localization of eukaryotic proteins in SWISS-PROT.
  • predict subcellular localization of your protein using LOCtree.
  • SWISS-PROT keywords strongly correlated with subcellular localization.
  • Follow this link for same list sorted by subcellular localization.
  • Examples of Non-trivial predictions.
  • Examples of incorrect predictions at high reliability.


  • Summary of results for Genomes
    Organism Number of ORF's Proteins with at leat one keyword Number of proteins annotated using LOCkey Number annotated using Homology
    Human (partial) 31073 16522 10174 6057
    Arabidopsis (plant) 25456 6703 3598 1961
    Drosophila (fly) 14184 4010 2430 1501
    C. elegans (Worm) 18898 3584 1999 1240
    Yeast 6306 3691 1747 837