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. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D142-8.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp846. Epub 2009 Oct 20.

The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010

UniProt Consortium  1
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The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010

UniProt Consortium. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan.

Abstract

The primary mission of UniProt is to support biological research by maintaining a stable, comprehensive, fully classified, richly and accurately annotated protein sequence knowledgebase, with extensive cross-references and querying interfaces freely accessible to the scientific community. UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium which consists of groups from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). UniProt is comprised of four major components, each optimized for different uses: the UniProt Archive, the UniProt Knowledgebase, the UniProt Reference Clusters and the UniProt Metagenomic and Environmental Sequence Database. UniProt is updated and distributed every 3 weeks and can be accessed online for searches or download at http://www.uniprot.org.

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