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Keywords

Last modified December 9, 2008

This subsection of the ‘Ontologies’ section lists selected keyword(s), derived from a thesaurus of controlled vocabulary with a hierarchical structure. Keywords summarise the content of a UniProtKB entry and facilitates the search of proteins of interest.

Keywords are classified in 10 categories:

An entry often contains several keywords. Inside a category, the keywords are stored by alphabetical order.
Example: P05067

Keywords can be used to retrieve subsets of protein entries or to generate indexes of entries based on functional, structural, or other categories.

Keywords in UniProtKB/TrEMBL

UniProtKB/TrEMBL makes use of the same list of keywords as UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot but, because most keywords in an entry are added in the manual annotation process, UniProtKB/TrEMBL entries generally contain fewer keywords than UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries. The main sources of UniProtKB/TrEMBL keywords are:

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