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When to use UniProt

You can perform many different tasks using UniProt including the following (Figure 10):

UniProt lets you explore the published literature for a protein, access manually reviewed experimental data, use sequence analysis tools such as Blast, link to information in 180 other resources and access complete proteome sets.
Figure 10 Examples of some tasks you can accomplish using UniProt.

When not to use UniProt 

UniProt cannot help you if you:

  • Want to buy any kind of biological product. For this, you need to access the online catalogues of the many suppliers of biochemicals and reagents for the life sciences.
  • Need medical advice. UniProt staff are biologists and biochemists who are not trained to give medical advice.