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UniProt
Database of protein sequences and functional information / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with UniPro.
UniProt is a freely accessible database of protein sequence and functional information, many entries being derived from genome sequencing projects. It contains a large amount of information about the biological function of proteins derived from the research literature. It is maintained by the UniProt consortium, which consists of several European bioinformatics organisations and a foundation from Washington, DC, USA.
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Description | UniProt is the Universal Protein resource, a central repository of protein data created by combining the Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL and PIR-PSD databases. |
Data types captured | Protein annotation |
Organisms | All |
Contact | |
Research center | EMBL-EBI, UK; SIB, Switzerland; PIR, US. |
Primary citation | UniProt Consortium[1] |
Access | |
Data format | Custom flat file, FASTA, GFF, RDF, XML. |
Website | www www |
Download URL | www |
Web service URL | Yes – JAVA API see info here & REST see info here |
Tools | |
Web | Advanced search, BLAST, ClustalO, bulk retrieval/download, ID mapping |
Miscellaneous | |
License | Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs |
Versioning | Yes |
Data release frequency | 8 weeks |
Curation policy | Yes – manual and automatic. Rules for automatic annotation generated by database curators and computational algorithms. |
Bookmarkable entities | Yes – both individual protein entries and searches |
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