UniProt
UniProt is the world’s leading high-quality, comprehensive and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.
Overview

Added
March 17, 2026
Subject & domain
computer-science-advanced · bioinformatics
Grade range
Grade 9 (Freshman)–Grade 12 (Senior)
Pricing
Free
Page kind
Service
Introduction
UniProt Resource Overview and Updates
- Core Function: UniProt serves as a comprehensive database for protein sequence and functional information, including UniProtKB and Proteomes sections.
- Recent Updates & News:
- Ongoing reorganization of the protein space within UniProtKB.
- Recent focus on the Cheetah and Leopard proteomes.
- New cross-references added for CARD, FunCoup, PAN-GO, CD-CODE, STRENDA-DB, and YCharOS.
- Acknowledgment of World AMR Awareness Week, highlighting the impact of antimicrobial resistance.
- Webinar Series:
- A series of training webinars is running through May 2026.
- Topics include functional annotation, BLAST usage, automatic annotation, and variants/disease.
- Sessions require individual registration; recordings are made available post-event.
- Collaborating Institutions: The project is a partnership between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Protein Information Resource (PIR), and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).
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