Getting started

• Text search
  Our basic text search allows you to search all the resources available

• BLAST
  Find regions of similarity between your sequences

• Sequence alignments
  Align two or more protein sequences using the Clustal Omega program

• Retrieve/ID mapping
  This tool merges the "Retrieve" and "ID Mapping" tools

UniProt data

• Download latest release
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• Statistics
  View Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL statistics

• How to cite us
  The UniProt Consortium

• Submit your data
  Submit your sequences and annotation updates

• SPARQL
  Query UniProt data using a SQL like graph query language

Protein spotlight

the shape of harm

Sometimes we are forced to see things differently. But it is never easy because we are creatures of habit and, like it or not, shackled by what we were first led to believe. This is exactly what happened with the prion. Prions are proteins whose shape can change under certain conditions, and in so doing be at the heart of fatal diseases…