Registry UniProt Resource

The cross-references section of UniProtKB entries displays explicit and implicit links to databases such as nucleotide sequence databases, model organism databases and genomics and proteomics resources.

Prefix: uniprot.resource
Alternative Prefixes: uniprot.db uniprot.database
Keywords: registry
Links: Homepage Part of uniprot

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Local unique identifiers in UniProt Resource should match this regular expression:
^DB-\d{4}$
Example Local Unique Identifier: DB-0174 Resolve
Pattern for CURIES: Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from UniProt Resource should match this regular expression:
^uniprot\.resource:DB-\d{4}$
Example CURIE: uniprot.resource:DB-0174

Contacts

Contact: Alex Bateman 0000-0002-6982-4660 bateman-research
Group Contact: Mailing List
Identifier Space Owner: The Uniprot Consortium
Contributor: creator Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Providers

Suggest

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 DB-0174 is used to demonstrate the providers available for UniProt Resource. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
UniProt Resource	`uniprot.resource`	https://www.uniprot.org/database/DB-0174
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/uniprot.resource:DB-0174

Normalize prefixes. This can be any capitalization or punctuation variant of the synonyms listed below.

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.normalize_prefix("uniprot.db")
'uniprot.resource'

Get all synonyms:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_synonyms("uniprot.resource")
{'uniprot.db', 'uniprot.database'}

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("uniprot.resource")
'UniProt Resource'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("uniprot.resource")
'https://www.uniprot.org/database'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("uniprot.resource")
'Alex Bateman'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("uniprot.resource")
'agb@ebi.ac.uk'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("uniprot.resource")
'bateman-research'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("uniprot.resource")
'0000-0002-6982-4660'