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
  The UniProt Consortium

• Submit your data
  Submit your sequences and annotation updates

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

Protein spotlight

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Multitasking is not limited to computers. On a day-to-day basis, humans frequently deal with more than one thing at a time - for the sake of speed, convenience and no doubt productivity. We brush our teeth while taking a shower, eat a sandwich while answering mails, wash the dishes while calling a relative. Though we are pretty good at it, humans are far from the only multitaskers on this planet. We also harbour a few inside us. Just consider cells..…