Update on activities at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2013

Rolf Apweiler, Maria Jesus Martin, Claire O'Donovan, Michele Magrane, Yasmin Alam-Faruque, Emanuela Alpi, Ricardo Antunes, Joanna Arganiska, Elisabet Barrera Casanova, Benoit Bely, Mark Bingley, Carlos Bonilla, Ramona Britto, Borisas Bursteinas, Wei Mun Chan, Gayatri Chavali, Elena Cibrian-Uhalte, Alan Da Silva, Maurizio De Giorgi, Emily DimmerFrancesco Fazzini, Paul Gane, Alexander Fedotov, Leyla Garcia Castro, Penelope Garmiri, Emma Hatton-Ellis, Reija Hieta, Rachael Huntley, Julius Jacobsen, Rachel Jones, Duncan Legge, Wudong Liu, Jie Luo, Alistair MacDougall, Prudence Mutowo, Andrew Nightingale, Sandra Orchard, Samuel Patient, Klemens Pichler, Diego Poggioli, Sangya Pundir, Luis Pureza, Guoying Qi, Steven Rosanoff, Tony Sawford, Harminder Sehra, Edward Turner, Vladimir Volynkin, Tony Wardell, Xavier Watkins, Hermann Zellner, Matt Corbett, Mike Donnelly, Pieter Van Rensburg, Mickael Goujon, Hamish McWilliam, Rodrigo Lopez, Ioannis Xenarios, Lydie Bougueleret, Alan Bridge, Sylvain Poux, Nicole Redaschi, Andrea Auchincloss, Kristian Axelsen, Parit Bansal, Delphine Baratin, Pierre Alain Binz, Marie Claude Blatter, Brigitte Boeckmann, Jerven Bolleman, Emmanuel Boutet, Lionel Breuza, Edouard De Castro, Lorenzo Cerutti, Elisabeth Coudert, Beatrice Cuche, Mikael Doche, Dolnide Dornevil, Severine Duvaud, Anne Estreicher, Livia Famiglietti, Marc Feuermann, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Sebastien Gehant, Vivienne Gerritsen, Arnaud Gos, Nadine Gruaz-Gumowski, Ursula Hinz, Chantal Hulo, Janet James, Florence Jungo, Guillaume Keller, Vicente Lara, Philippe Lemercier, Jocelyne Lew, Damien Lieberherr, Xavier Martin, Patrick Masson, Anne Morgat, Teresa Neto, Salvo Paesano, Ivo Pedruzzi, Sandrine Pilbout, Monica Pozzato, Manuela Pruess, Catherine Rivoire, Bernd Roechert, Michel Schneider, Christian Sigrist, Karin Sonesson, Sylvie Staehli, Andre Stutz, Shyamala Sundaram, Michael Tognolli, Laure Verbregue, Anne Lise Veuthey, Mohamed Zerara, Cathy H. Wu, Cecilia N. Arighi, Leslie Arminski, Chuming Chen, Yongxing Chen, Hongzhan Huang, Abhishek Kukreja, Kati Laiho, Peter McGarvey, Darren A. Natale, Thanemozhi G. Natarajan, Natalia V. Roberts, Baris E. Suzek, C. R. Vinayaka, Qinghua Wang, Yuqi Wang, Lai Su Yeh, Meher Shruti Yerramalla, Jian Zhang

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    Abstract

    The mission of the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) (http://www.uniprot.org) is to support biological research by providing a freely accessible, stable, comprehensive, fully classified, richly and accurately annotated protein sequence knowledgebase. It integrates, interprets and standardizes data from numerous resources to achieve the most comprehensive catalogue of protein sequences and functional annotation. UniProt comprises four major components, each optimized for different uses, the UniProt Archive, the UniProt Knowledgebase, the UniProt Reference Clusters and the UniProt Metagenomic and Environmental Sequence Database. UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium, which consists of groups from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). UniProt is updated and distributed every 4 weeks and can be accessed online for searches or downloads.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalNucleic Acids Research
    Volume41
    Issue numberD1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013
    Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Genetics

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