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

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  View Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL statistics

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

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

Protein spotlight

giving in to time

Time runs its treacherous fingers along everything. The smoothed edges of a pebble. The polished wood of a staircase. The worn joints in our bones. Sometimes, even, the erosion of our memory. Every day, every hour, every minute, we get a little older. Until we reach that invisible threshold when we actually begin to feel the years, and what getting older means. Our pace becomes slower and our muscles, stiff. Our bodies gradually bend forward and parts cave in…