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What is UniProt?
UniProt provides the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.
Why do we need UniProt?
As the number of completely sequenced genomes continues to increase, huge efforts are being made in the research community to understand as much as possible about the proteins encoded by these genomes. This work is critical to many areas of science including biology, medicine and biotechnology – and is generating a wealth of data. UniProt provides an up-to-date, comprehensive body of protein information. The resource facilitates scientific discovery by collecting, interpreting and organising this information, which saves researchers countless hours of work.
What can I do with UniProt?
You can use UniProt for a wide range of tasks, from finding out about your protein of interest and comparing its protein sequence with other proteins, to mapping a list of identifiers from an external database to UniProtKB or vice versa.
Who produces UniProt?
UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium, a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). Around 90 people are involved across the three groups through a range of tasks such as database curation, software development and user support.