Introduction to Protein Databases

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The UniProt Knowledgebase can be found here.

You can see a complete description of a protein by entering its UniProt access ID into the site's query field. Equivalently, you may simply insert its ID (uniprot_id) directly into a UniProt hyperlink as follows:

http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/uniprot_id
For example, the data for protein B5ZC00 can be found at http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/B5ZC00.

Swiss-Prot holds protein data as a structured .txt file. You can obtain it by simply adding .txt to the link:

http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/uniprot_id.txt
Given: The UniProt ID of a protein.

Return: A list of biological processes in which the protein is involved (biological processes are found in a subsection of the protein's "Gene Ontology" (GO) section).