- Course overview
- Search within this course
- What is UniProt?
- Why do we need UniProt?
- When to use UniProt
- Quiz: Check your learning I
- How to access and navigate UniProt
- How to search UniProt
- Annotation score
- Quiz: Check your learning II
- Exploring a UniProtKB entry
- How to use UniProt tools
- How to get data from UniProt
- How to submit data to UniProt
- When to use UniProt: guided examples
- Exercise: finding entries with 3D structures
- Exercise: mapping other database identifiers to UniProt
- Summary
- Get help and support on UniProt
- References
- Next steps
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Data evidence
Indicating data origin
- The information in a UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) record comes from a range of different sources. To make it easy to tell where the data have come from, the origin of each piece of information presented in an entry is provided.
- UniProt makes use of a subset of evidence codes from the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO) to indicate data origin. These ECO codes are shown directly in the text version (also known as flat file version) of the entries. On the UniProt website, they are transformed into user-friendly, easy to understand labels.
- Evidences that have been used in manual assertions are coloured gold on the website (Figure 5), while those that are used in automatic assertions are coloured silver. Manual assertions include experimental data as well as computational predictions and annotation transfers which have subsequently been verified by a biocurator.
