UNIT 1.29 UniProt Tools. Issue 1 (24th March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pundir, Sangya; Martin, Maria J.; O'Donovan, Claire
• Is Part Of: Current protocols in bioinformatics. Volume 53:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1.29.1
• Page End: 1.29.15
• Publication Date: 2016-03-24
• Subjects: UniProt -- search -- navigation -- tutorial; Bioinformatics -- Laboratory manuals; Nucleotide sequence -- Laboratory manuals; Amino acid sequence -- Laboratory manuals; Base Sequence; Amino Acid Sequence; Computational Biology -- methods; Databases, Genetic; Proteins -- analysis; Sequence Analysis -- methods; Sequence Homology; Amino acid sequence; Bioinformatics; Nucleotide sequence; Laboratory Manuals; Laboratory manuals; 570.285
• DOI: 10.1002/0471250953.bi0129s53
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1934-3396

Abstract

Abstract : The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is a comprehensive resource for protein sequence and annotation data (UniProt Consortium, 2015). The UniProt Web site receives ∼400, 000 unique visitors per month and is the primary means to access UniProt. Along with various datasets that you can search, UniProt provides three main tools. These are the 'BLAST' tool for sequence similarity searching, the 'Align' tool for multiple sequence alignment, and the 'Retrieve/ID Mapping' tool for using a list of identifiers to retrieve UniProtKB proteins and to convert database identifiers from UniProt to external databases or vice versa. This unit provides three basic protocols, three alternate protocols, and two support protocols for using UniProt tools. © 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.