The Universal Protein Resource

Knowledge Source Identification
Knowledge source name The Universal Protein Resource
Abbreviated name UniProt
Owner/Developer European Bioinformatics Institute , Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Protein Information Resource
Abbreviated owner EMBL-EBI, SIB, PIR
Country United Kingdom
Languages English
URL http://www.uniprot.org/
Contact http://www.uniprot.org/contact
Contact email help@uniprot.org
Description The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is a comprehensive resource for protein sequence and annotation data. The UniProt databases are the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB), the UniProt Reference Clusters (UniRef), and the UniProt Archive (UniParc). UniProt is a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). Across the three institutes more than 100 people are involved through different tasks such as database curation, software development and support.
Knowledge Source Category
Category Information System
Sub categories Database, Knowledge-base
Knowledge Dissemination and Sharing
Dissemination channel Website, Social media
Targeted audience (specified/objective analysis) Researchers, Scientists
Users access Open access
Knowledge Characterization
3Rs relevance Replacement
Purpose Documentation and information
Technology/Tools Non-testing methods (in silico)