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Also known as UniProt Knowledge Base

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, US.

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Vinony's link graph records 14,528 inbound references to Q905695, and connects out to Q180686, protein primary structure and Ensembl genome database project.

It sits within the topics Bioinformatics, Computational biology and Online databases.

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Key facts

Biodatabase.title
UniProt
Biodatabase.description
UniProt is the Universal Protein resource, a central repository of protein data created by combining the Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL and PIR-PSD databases.
Biodatabase.scope
Protein annotation
Biodatabase.organism
All
Biodatabase.center
EMBL-EBI, UK; SIB, Switzerland; PIR, US.
Biodatabase.citation
UniProt Consortium
Biodatabase.format
Custom flat file, FASTA, GFF, RDF, XML.
Biodatabase.download
& for downloading complete data sets
Biodatabase.webservice
Yes – JAVA API see info & REST see info
Biodatabase.webapp
Advanced search, BLAST, ClustalO, bulk retrieval/download, ID mapping
Biodatabase.license
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs
Biodatabase.versioning
Yes
Biodatabase.frequency
8 weeks
Biodatabase.curation
Yes – manual and automatic. Rules for automatic annotation generated by database curators and computational algorithms.
Biodatabase.bookmark
Yes – both individual protein entries and searches

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections
Contents
  • The UniProt consortium
  • The roots of the UniProt databases
  • Organization of the UniProt databases
  • UniProtKB
  • UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
  • UniProtKB/TrEMBL
  • UniParc
  • Source databases
  • UniRef
  • Funding
  • References
  • External links

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, US.

==The UniProt consortium==

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