UniProt release 2016_05

UniProt 2016_05 is out! UniProtKB now offers information on 62,699,279 proteins.

Our headline article, "Slow/White and the 6 DWORFs", highlights the need for expert biocuration, as many fascinating and highly relevant proteins can neither be predicted, retrieved, nor annotated automatically.

New this release

• Cross references have been added to SIGNOR http://signor.uniroma2.it/, the Signaling Network Open Resource, a resource that organizes and stores, in a structured format, signaling information published in the scientific literature. The core of this project is a large collection of manually-annotated causal relationships between proteins that participate in signal transduction.
• Changes have been made to the controlled vocabulary for human diseases.
• Change of UniProt job identifier length to enable a more flexible and scalable infrastructure.