This webinar took place on 29 February 2024.
UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function, and variation information.
This webinar will give a brief introduction to the UniProt website and then highlight resources available that proteomics scientists or users with large protein datasets may find useful in analysing their data. This will encompass our proteomes service, how to convert and retrieve ID mappings, how to carry out a peptide search and how to visualise new large scale proteomics-derived PTM data.
The webinar will then go on to introduce the UniProt Proteins API which allows researchers to access and download UniProt data alongside large-scale genomic, proteomics and variation data without needing prior in-depth knowledge of programmatic languages. Data is available for download and querying in a range of formats, including XML, FASTA, and PEFF. The API multi-query search functions will be demonstrated and useful features such as searching the database by peptide, finding proteomic evidence of post translational modifications and accessing a protein entry to find its peptides will be explained.
The UniProt Proteins API is available at //www.ebi.ac.uk/proteins/api/doc
Who is this course for?
This webinar is aimed at computational and wet-lab scientists, with no prior knowledge of programming required. An undergraduate level knowledge of protein biology will be useful.
For those already familiar with programming languages that require a more detailed explanation of accessing UniProt programmatically please see the webinar ‘Programmatic access to UniProt using Python.’
This webinar is not designed to be a general introduction to the UniProt resources or to address context-specific research problems. Please see the webinar ‘Exploring protein sequences and functional annotation with UniProt’ for a general introduction to our resources and tools. For more problem-specific help or context-specific queries please use the green ‘help’ tab on our webpages to get in touch with us.
Please note that we are not able to provide certificates of attendance for our webinars.
Outcomes
By the end of the webinar you will be able to:
- Find and explore the UniProt services useful for proteomics scientists or users with large protein datasets
- Identify when and how to use the UniProt Proteins API
Find the training materials and other on-demand training on the EMBL-EBI Training website: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events...