Q905695
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.uniprot.org
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- SPARQL endpoint URL
- sparql.uniprot.org/sparql
- API endpoint URL
- www.ebi.ac.uk/proteins/api/swagger.json
- number of triples
- 161612947128
- social media followers
- 10001
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- 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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