3. What is UniProt?
• UniProt is the universal protein resource
• A central repository (storage area) of protein data
• UniProt is a comprehensive (large scope)
• high-quality
• freely accessible database
• www.uniprot.org
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4. Collaboration
• UniProt is produced by the UniProt
Consortium(Association)- a collaboration
between
the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
Protein Information Resource (PIR).
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5. What is the use of UniProt ?
• Useful in finding protein sequence and functional
information.
• It contains a large amount of information about the
biological function of proteins.
• Useful for inferring evolutionary information.
• We can also find out about the function of proteins by
studying properties such as the biological processes they
are involved in.
their post-translational modifications
their interaction with other molecules
their location in cells and organisms
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9. Proteomes
• A proteome consists of the set of proteins
thought to be expressed by an organism whose
genome has been completely sequenced.
Reference Proteome Set
• They cover well-studied model organisms
and other organisms of interest for
biomedical research and phylogeny.
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