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, publications and annotation updates

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

Protein spotlight

either you, or me

The planet is replete with organisms of all shapes and sizes fighting for their survival. Humans included. The best part of an organism's life is spent looking for the right nutrients and conditions to thrive, and over time Nature has designed a variety of subtle mechanisms to sense them. In this way, plants bind photons from sunlight to transform it into energy, while their roots absorb nitrogen to synthesize amino acids…