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

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• 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

luck of the draw

When something gets uncomfortably close to you - in whichever way it may be - you will seek to fend it off. By walking away, choosing to ignore it, using physical force or, if it is a person, perhaps verbal abuse. In the same vein, across all kingdoms, organisms have developed a multi-faceted system to fight off the more invisible world of microbial infection: the immune response…