Getting started

• Text search
  Our basic text search allows you to search all the resources available

• BLAST
  Find regions of similarity between your sequences

• Sequence alignments
  Align two or more protein sequences using the Clustal Omega program

• Retrieve/ID mapping
  Batch search with UniProt IDs or convert them to another type of database ID (or vice versa)

• Peptide search
  Find sequences that exactly match a query peptide sequence

UniProt data

• Download latest release
  Get the UniProt data

• Statistics
  View Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL statistics

• How to cite us
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• Submit your data
  Submit your sequences, publications and annotation updates

• Programmatic access
  Query UniProt data using APIs providing REST, SPARQL and Java services

Protein spotlight

on guard

Picture a sentry watching out for the enemy from a castle turret. Suddenly, in a growing cloud of dust, a cavalcade of horsemen emerges, moving towards him fast. Seeing the enemy is one thing, but if our sentry does not act upon it, there is a fair chance the horsemen will enter the castle grounds before the Queen has been notified…