The UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is a comprehensive resource for protein sequence and functional information with extensive cross-references to more than 120 external databases. Besides amino acid sequence and a description, it also provides taxonomic data and citation information.

Prefix
uniprot
Alternative Prefixes
UniProt SwissProt UP uniprot/swiss-prot Uniprot ID UniProtKB
Keywords
biology protein taxonomic classification
Links
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Contact
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in UniProt Protein should match this regular expression:
^([A-N,R-Z][0-9]([A-Z][A-Z, 0-9][A-Z, 0-9][0-9]){1,2})|([O,P,Q][0-9][A-Z, 0-9][A-Z, 0-9][A-Z, 0-9][0-9])(\.\d+)?$

Example Local Unique Identifier
P0DP23   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from UniProt Protein should match this regular expression:
^uniprot:([A-N,R-Z][0-9]([A-Z][A-Z, 0-9][A-Z, 0-9][0-9]){1,2})|([O,P,Q][0-9][A-Z, 0-9][A-Z, 0-9][A-Z, 0-9][0-9])(\.\d+)?$

Example CURIE
uniprot:P0DP23
Publications
2006 The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt): an expanding universe of protein information
Metaregistry UniProt Protein

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 15 mappings to external registries for this resource with 8 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
AberOWL AberOWL logo aberowl UP
BioContext biocontext UniProtKB
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink UniProtKB
Cellosaurus Cellosaurus Registry logo cellosaurus UniProtKB
EDAM EDAM Ontology logo edam 3021
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.wf28wm
GO Gene Ontology Registry logo go UniProtKB
Integbio Integbio logo integbio nbdc00221
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam uniprot
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t uniprot
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information Registry logo ncbi UniProt
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons uniprot
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100011521
TogoID togoid Uniprot
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P352
RDF Information

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/$1

Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier P0DP23 is used to demonstrate the providers available for UniProt Protein. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
UniProt Protein uniprot http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P0DP23
UniProt Protein (RDF) rdf http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P0DP23
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/uniprot:P0DP23
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/uniprot:P0DP23
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/uniprot:P0DP23
National Center for Biotechnology Information Registry ncbi https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/P0DP23
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Code Name URL
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/uniprot:P0DP23
drugbank DrugBank Polypeptide https://go.drugbank.com/polypeptides/P0DP23
indra INDRA Database https://db.indra.bio/statements/from_agents?&format=html&agent0=P0DP23@UP
iptmnet iPTMnet https://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/iptmnet/entry/P0DP23
ncbi UniProt through NCBI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/P0DP23
oma Orthologous Matrix Browser http://omabrowser.org/cgi-bin/gateway.pl?f=DisplayEntry&p2=orthologs&p1=P0DP23
omnipath OmniPathDB https://omnipathdb.org/interactions/?fields=sources,references&partners=P0DP23
scholia Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/uniprot/P0DP23