UniProt

UniProt

Content
Description	UniProt is the Universal Protein resource, a central repository of protein data created by combining the Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL and PIR-PSD databases.
Data types captured	Protein annotation
Organisms	All
Contact
Research center	EMBL-EBI, UK; SIB, Switzerland; PIR, US.
Primary citation	UniProt Consortium[1]
Access
Data format	Custom flat file, FASTA, GFF, RDF, XML.
Website	www.uniprot.org www.uniprot.org/news/
Download URL	www.uniprot.org/downloads & for downloading complete data sets ftp.uniprot.org
Web service URL	Yes – JAVA API see info here & REST see info here
Tools
Web	Advanced search, BLAST, ClustalO, bulk retrieval/download, ID mapping
Miscellaneous
License	Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs
Versioning	Yes
Data release frequency	8 weeks
Curation policy	Yes – manual and automatic. Rules for automatic annotation generated by database curators and computational algorithms.
Bookmarkable entities	Yes – both individual protein entries and searches

UniProt is a freely accessible database of protein sequence and functional information, many entries being derived from genome sequencing projects. It contains a large amount of information about the biological function of proteins derived from the research literature. It is maintained by the UniProt consortium, which consists of several European bioinformatics organisations and a foundation from Washington, DC, USA.