articleNucleic Acids ResearchOct 27, 2014GOLD OA

UniProt: a hub for protein information

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Abstract

UniProt is an important collection of protein sequences and their annotations, which has doubled in size to 80 million sequences during the past year. This growth in sequences has prompted an extension of UniProt accession number space from 6 to 10 characters. An increasing fraction of new sequences are identical to a sequence that already exists in the database with the majority of sequences coming from genome sequencing projects. We have created a new proteome identifier that uniquely identifies a particular assembly of a species and strain or subspecies to help users track the provenance of sequences. We present a new website that has been designed using a user-experience design process. We have introduced…

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  • UniProt
  • Biology
  • Proteome
  • Annotation
  • Identifier
  • Computational biology
  • Protein sequencing
  • Sequence database
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