UniProt release 1.0

Published December 15, 2003

Headlines

First release of UniProt

Release 42.7 of Swiss-Prot is integrated in the first release of UniProt, the Universal Protein Resource. Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL are the two sections of the UniProt Knowledgebase.

Further reading about the Uniprot 1st release:

Science magazine - Protein databases unified
NHGRI PRESS RELEASE: Funding for global protein database will create one reliable resource
JOINT PRESS RELEASE - UniProt consortium goes on-line
UniProt PRESS RELEASE - Establishing a universal knowledgebase of proteins