Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on November 16, 2006
Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(Database issue):D193-D197; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl929
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, Database issue D193-D197
© 2006 The Author(s)
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The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
1 Protein Information Resource, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3300 Whitehaven St. NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20007, USA 2 The EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK 3 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Centre Medical Universitaire 1 rue Michel Servet 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
To whom correspondence should be addressed to Rolf Apweiler. Tel: +44 1223 494435; Fax: +44 1223 494468; Email: rolf.apweiler{at}ebi.ac.uk
Received September 21, 2006. Accepted October 12, 2006.
The ability to store and interconnect all available information on proteins is crucial to modern biological research. Accordingly, the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) plays an increasingly important role by providing a stable, comprehensive, freely accessible central resource on protein sequences and functional annotation. UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium, formed in 2002 by 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 web site and the provision of additional value-added information through cross-references to other databases. UniProt is comprised of three major components, each optimized for different uses: the UniProt Archive, the UniProt Knowledgebase and the UniProt Reference Clusters. An additional component consisting of metagenomic and environmental sequences has recently been added to UniProt to ensure availability of such sequences in a timely fashion. UniProt is updated and distributed on a bi-weekly basis and can be accessed online for searches or download at http://www.uniprot.org.
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