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Why is UniProtKB composed of 2 sections, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and UniProtKB/TrEMBL?
Does UniProtKB contain all protein sequences?
How redundant are the UniProt databases?
What are the evidences for defining a CDS as protein?
What is the difference between an accession number (AC) and the entry name?
Why does the UniProtKB use so many different names for the same protein?
Do I still need to use the Sequence Retrieval System (SRS)?
How do I link to a specific version of a UniProtKB entry?
What are Complete Proteome Sets?
Why have some UniProtKB accession numbers been deleted? How can I track them?
On what basis are literature references inserted in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries?
What journal abbreviations are used in UniProtKB?
How can I retrieve all UniProtKB entries for which the 3-D structure is known?
Why do I find many cross-references to PDB in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot?
How can I download a list of all viruses infecting humans?
How are protein sequence variety and protein diversity represented in UniProtKB?
What is the canonical sequence? Are all isoforms described in one entry? How can I retrieve them?
How do I get the nucleotide sequence that corresponds to the canonical UniProtKB sequence?
What is HAMAP?
What is Integr8?
Protein sequences from extinct organisms
How can I get all the proteins involved in a given disease ?
What are the differences between UniProtKB keywords and the GO terms?
How do I get notified automatically of updates to UniProtKB?
How can I get all green plant entries integrated in UniProtKB since release 12.0 ?
What happened to PIR-PSD entries? Are all PIR-PSD entries now in the UniProtKB?
What data resources are included in UniParc?
Why is UniParc not available via ftp?
What is UniProt's policy regarding copyright and database distribution?
Can I download a complete mapping table between different databases?
What are the date formats accepted in the query builder relevant fields (e.g. UniProtKB date integrated/date modified)?
How to link to UniProt entries (UniProtKB, UniParc and UniRef)?
How do I access resources on this web site programmatically?
Where can I buy protein X? Which company sells protein Y ? Where can I buy strain Z?
How can I get medical advice from UniProtKB?