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Keywords

UniProtKB entries are tagged with keywords that can be used to retrieve particular subsets of entries. There are 10 categories of keywords:

› Biological process
› Cellular component
› Coding sequence diversity
› Developmental stage
› Disease
› Domain
› Ligand
› Molecular function
› Post-translation modification
› Technical term

By default, searching the keywords will look for matches in both name and definition. Example queries to search keywords only by name:

name:nucleus
name:"protein synthesis"

Additional information

The document keywlist.txt lists all keywords and a definition of their usage in UniProtKB.