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The mission of UniProt is to provide the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.

What we provide

UniProtKBProtein knowledgebase, consists of two sections:
  • Swiss-Prot, which is manually annotated and reviewed.
  • TrEMBL, which is automatically annotated and is not reviewed.
UniRefSequence clusters, used to speed up similarity searches.
UniParcSequence archive, used to keep track of sequences and their identifiers.
Supporting dataLiterature citations, taxonomy, keywords and more.

News

Release 14.4 – Nov 4, 2008

One thousand legs and a few toxins ยท Cross-references to NextBio and Xenbase


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Protein Spotlight

The juice of life
October 2008

There is no life without blood. Pumped through us by the heart, blood carries the oxygen we breathe and relays it to every part of our body to keep us going. If too much of it leaves us, life leaves us too…