UniProt release 2016_02

UniProt release 2016_02 is now available with 61,522,041 proteins in the UniProt Knowledgebase! Our headline article: "Another one (antibiotic) bites the dust" describes the story of the Mcr-1 gene, which is available in UniProtKB.

UniProt provides sequence annotations, a.k.a. protein features, to describe regions or sites of biological interest: secondary structure regions, domains, post-translational modifications and binding sites, among others. With the growth in biological data, integration and visualisation has become increasingly important for exposing different data aspects that might be otherwise hidden, unclear or difficult to grasp. Our new UniProt feature viewer, a BioJS component, brings together protein sequence features in one compact view. 

The UniProt feature fiewer is available for every UniProtKB protein entry through the ‘Feature viewer’ link under the ‘Display’ heading (on the left-hand side).

Cross-references to SwissPalm

SwissPalm is available at http://swisspalm.epfl.ch/. View all UniProtKB entries having a cross-reference to SwissPalm.

Change of the cross-references to Gramene

We have modified our cross-references to the Gramene database. Show all entries having a cross-reference to Gramene.

Removal of the cross-references to GeneFarm

Cross-references to GeneFarm have been removed.

Removal of the cross-references to GenoList

Cross-references to GenoList have been removed.

Changes to the controlled vocabulary of human diseases

Diseases added, modified and deleted.