UniProt
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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 |
| 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 |
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.