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Design and Implementation of the UniProt Website

Eric Jain1, Isabelle Phan1, Severine Duvaud1, Elisabeth Gasteiger1, Nicole Redaschi1, Maria J. Martin2, Peter McGarvey3, & Amos Bairoch1

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  1. Swiss-Prot Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  2. The EMBL Outstation—European Bioinformatics Institute
  3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center

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10.1186/1471-2105-10-136 (Peer Reviewed) Published in BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:136.
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Received 06 December 2008 02:21 UTC; Posted 08 December 2008
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The UniProt consortium is the main provider of protein sequence and annotation data for much of the life sciences community. The www.uniprot.org website is the primary access point to this data and to documentation and basic tools for the data. This paper discusses the design and implementation of the new website, which was released in July 2008, and shows how it improves data access for users with different levels of experience, as well as to machines for programmatic access.

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Hilary Spencer on 10 December 2008 21:50 UTC

As the References section in your article is marked as “TBD”, the following article might be relevant (if you haven’t already seen it):
Stephan Philippi, Jacob Köhler. “Opinion: Addressing the problems with life-science databases for traditional uses and systems biology” Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 482-488 (June 2006). doi:10.1038/nrg1872

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Jain, Eric, Phan, Isabelle, Duvaud, Severine, Gasteiger, Elisabeth, Redaschi, Nicole, Martin, Maria, McGarvey, Peter, and Bairoch, Amos. Design and Implementation of the UniProt Website. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.2611.1> (2008)

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