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The primary mission of Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is to support biological research by maintaining a stable, comprehensive, fully classified, richly and accurately annotated protein sequence knowledgebase, with extensive cross-references and querying interfaces freely accessible to the scientific community. UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium which consists of groups from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). UniProt is comprised of four major components, each optimized for different uses: the UniProt Archive, the UniProt Knowledgebase, the UniProt Reference Clusters and the UniProt Metagenomic and Environmental Sequence Database. UniProt is updated and distributed every 4 weeks and can be accessed online for searches or download at http://www.uniprot.org.
通用蛋白质资源(UniProt)的主要任务是通过维护一个稳定、全面、分类完整、注释丰富且准确的蛋白质序列知识库来支持生物学研究,该知识库具有广泛的交叉引用,并且科学界可以免费访问其查询接口。UniProt由UniProt协会制作,该协会由欧洲生物信息学研究所(EBI)、瑞士生物信息学研究所(SIB)和蛋白质信息资源(PIR)的团队组成。UniProt由四个主要部分组成,每个部分针对不同用途进行了优化:UniProt存档、UniProt知识库、UniProt参考簇以及UniProt宏基因组和环境序列数据库。UniProt每4周更新和发布一次,可在http://www.uniprot.org在线访问进行搜索或下载。