[Bionews] UniProt Release Note 14.0

[Raja Mazumder]

Dear UniProt Users,

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			UniProt Release 14 Note
				22-July-2008
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Database description
3. Current release contents
4. Description of changes made to UniProt since release 13.0
5. Forthcoming changes
6. How to link to UniProt
7. Feedback
8. Acknowledgements
9. Terms of use
10. Citation
11. Contact

1. INTRODUCTION
The UniProt Consortium--European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Swiss
Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and Protein Information Resource
(PIR)--is pleased to announce UniProt Release 14 (22-July-2008). UniProt
is updated every three weeks, and can be accessed online for searches or
download at http://www.uniprot.org.

2. DATABASE DESCRIPTION
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt), a collaboration between the
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Protein Information Resource
(PIR) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), is comprised of
four databases, each optimized for different uses. The UniProt
Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is the central access point for extensively
curated protein information, including function, classification and
cross-references. The UniProt Reference Clusters (UniRef) combine
closely related sequences into a single record to speed up sequence
similarity searches. The UniProt Archive (UniParc) is a comprehensive
repository of all protein sequences, consisting only of unique
identifiers and sequences. The UniProt Metagenomic and Environmental
Sequences (UniMES) database is a repository specifically developed for
metagenomic and environmental data. Additional information on UniProt is
available at ftp://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/README and in
the UniProt Knowledgebase user manual
(http://www.uniprot.org/docs/userman.htm).

3. CURRENT RELEASE CONTENTS
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UniProt Release 14
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Database -- Entries
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UniProtKB -- 6,462,752 (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot section: 392,667;
UniProtKB/TrEMBL section: 6,070,084)
UniRef100 -- 6,229,158
UniRef90 -- 4,169,699
UniRef50 -- 1,987,164
UniParc -- 17,159,442
UniMES -- 6,028,191
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Detailed release statistics for UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and
UniProtKB/TrEMBL sections of the UniProt Knowledgebase can be viewed at
http://www.uniprot.org/docs/relnotes.htm#SPstat and
http://www.uniprot.org/docs/relnotes.htm#TRstat, respectively.

4. DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES MADE TO UNIPROT SINCE RELEASE 13.0
UniProt Knowledgebase - To learn about the changes since the last major
release please read the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and UniProtKB/TrEMBL
release notes (http://www.uniprot.org/docs/relnotes.htm) and the recent
changes document (http://www.uniprot.org/docs/sp_news.htm).

5. FORTHCOMING CHANGES
Forthcoming changes concerning the UniProt Knowledgebase are described
in http://www.uniprot.org/docs/sp_soon.htm and
http://www.uniprot.org/docs/xml_soon.htm.

6. HOW TO LINK TO UNIPROT ENTRIES
How to link to UniProt entries can be found at
http://www.uniprot.org/faq/28#retrieving

7. FEEDBACK
We are constantly trying to improve our database in terms of accuracy
and representation and hence, consider your feedback extremely valuable.
Please contact us (http://www.uniprot.org/contact) if you have any
questions or comments .

Submit new sequence data, updates and corrections at
http://www.uniprot.org/help/submissions.

8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
UniProt is funded by the US National Institutes of Health, European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the European Union and the Swiss
Federal Government.

9. TERMS OF USE
UniProt is available for both commercial and non-commercial use. Please
see http://www.uniprot.org/help/license for details.

10. CITATION
If you want to cite UniProt in a publication please use the following
reference:
The UniProt Consortium. The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt).
Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D190-5.

11. CONTACT
EMBL Outstation
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom
Telephone: (+44 1223) 494 444
Fax: (+44 1223) 494 468
Electronic mail address: datalib from ebi.ac.uk / swissprot from ebi.ac.uk
WWW server: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

Protein Information Resource (PIR)
Georgetown University Medical Center
3300 Whitehaven Street NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20007
United States of America
Telephone: (+1 202) 687 1039
Fax: (+1 202) 687 0057)
Electronic mail address: pirmail from georgetown.edu
WWW server: http://pir.georgetown.edu

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
Centre Medical Universitaire
1, rue Michel Servet
1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Telephone: (+41 22) 702 50 50
Fax: (+41 22) 702 58 58
Electronic mail address: swiss-prot from expasy.org
WWW server: http://www.expasy.org

Sincerely,

UniProt Help Desk

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