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UniProt release 2012_05 - May 16, 2012
Sex by deception | Update to Reference proteomes in UniProtKB
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Protein Spotlight
kiss of life
April 2012
We all take Spring for granted. The moment the first bouts of warmth hit the air, we fully expect to see the lawn duly mottled with daisies, leaves pushing their way into the nascent season and flowers blossoming wherever we care to look…
The first 10 years of UniProt
Saturday 8 September 2012, Basel, Switzerland
Celebrate UniProt’s 10th anniversary with us! Renowned speakers from the fields of interactions & protein modelling, proteomics, protein structure & function, and genome analysis & annotation will highlight how protein databases are underpinning life sciences.
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Welcome
The mission of UniProt is to provide the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.
What we provide
| UniProtKB | Protein knowledgebase, consists of two sections:
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| UniRef | Sequence clusters, used to speed up sequence similarity searches. |
| UniParc | Sequence archive, used to keep track of sequences and their identifiers. |
| Supporting data | Literature citations, taxonomy, keywords, subcellular locations, cross-referenced databases and more. |
Getting started



Swiss-Prot, which is
manually annotated and reviewed.
TrEMBL, which is
automatically annotated and is not reviewed.