UniProt -- the Universal Protein Resource
What you can do:
A central resource on protein sequences and functional annotation.
Highlights:
- The UniProt Consortium is a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Protein Information Resource (PIR) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).
- The core activities include manual curation of protein sequences assisted by computational analysis, sequence archiving, development of a user-friendly UniProt website, and the provision of additional value-added information through cross-references to other databases.
- UniProt is comprised of four major components, each optimized for different uses: the UniProt Knowledgebase, the UniProt Reference Clusters, the UniProt Archive and the UniProt Metagenomic and Environmental Sequences database.
- UniProt is updated and distributed every three weeks.
Keywords:
- protein sequence portal
- protein information portal
- protein knowledgebase
- protein sequence data warehouse
- protein annotations
- protein classifications
- protein structures
- protein functions
- protein phylogeny
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: UniProt
-- 2005 Update: UniProt
-- 2006 Update: The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt): an expanding universe of protein information
-- 2007 Update: The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
-- 2008 Update: The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
2011 Update: Ongoing and future developments at the Universal Protein Resource.
-- 2005 Update: UniProt
-- 2006 Update: The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt): an expanding universe of protein information
-- 2007 Update: The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
-- 2008 Update: The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
2011 Update: Ongoing and future developments at the Universal Protein Resource.
This record last updated: 01-13-2010