Repository details

UniProt

Name of repository
UniProt
Additional name(s)
  • The Universal Protein Resource
Repository URL
https://www.uniprot.org/
Subject(s)
Description
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is a comprehensive resource for protein sequence and annotation data. The UniProt databases are the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB), the UniProt Reference Clusters (UniRef), and the UniProt Archive (UniParc).
Contact(s)
Content type(s)
Certificate(s)
CoreTrustSeal
Start date
2025-03-20
End date
2028-03-19
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.uniprot.org/help/about
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (7)

Institution
British Heart Foundation
Institution
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute
Additional name(s)
  • EMBL-EBI
Institution
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
National Institutes of Health
Additional name(s)
  • NIH
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
National Science Foundation
Additional name(s)
  • NSF
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Protein Information Resource
Additional name(s)
  • PIR
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
Additional name(s)
  • SERI
  • Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
  • SBFI
Institution
Country
Switzerland
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Additional name(s)
  • SIB
Institution
Country
Switzerland
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (1)

Policy Name
License and Disclaimer

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Database licenses (1)

Database License
CC

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (1)

DataLicense
CC

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Submission
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
  • PURL
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
https://www.uniprot.org/help/publications
Enhanced Publication
yes
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (5)

Type
FTP
Url
ftp://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/
Type
REST
Url
https://www.uniprot.org/help/api
Type
REST
Url
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/proteins/api
documentation
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/proteins/api/doc/
Type
SPARQL
Url
https://sparql.uniprot.org
Type
other
Url
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/uniprot/japi/

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard
Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas

Remarks

Remarks
UniProt is a partner of International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEX) Repository was previously CoreTrustSeal certified from 2020-05-15 until 2023-05-16 https://doi.org/10.34894/2NZG5S
Entry date
2013-04-04
Last update
2025-03-21
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re3data.org: UniProt; editing status 2025-03-21; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3BW2M last accessed: 2025-04-26