UniProt Protein Knowledgebase.
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SUBMITTER: Pundir S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5565770 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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UniProt Protein Knowledgebase.
Pundir Sangya S Martin Maria J MJ O'Donovan Claire C
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 20170101
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is a freely available comprehensive resource for protein sequence and annotation data. UniProt is a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). Across the three institutes more than 100 people are involved through different tasks such as expert curation, software development, and support.This chapter introduces the functionality and data pr ...[more]
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