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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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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

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  • 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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