Bioinformatics: Exploring Protein Sequence and Functional Information with UniProt

Exploring Protein Sequence and Functional Information with UniProt.

The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is a comprehensive resource for protein sequence and annotation data. UniProt aids scientific discovery by collecting, interpreting and organising protein information in one site so that it is easy to access and use. It provides tools to help with protein sequence analysis as well as links to more than 150 other biological databases to help you access additional information. This course is a guide to the UniProt resource, covering the types of data it provides and how to access the data using the UniProt website. It will go through the protein information and analysis tools available in UniProt in a series of presentations and hands-on exercises.

Further information, including a detailed timetable, is available here.

Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.

• Our courses are open to all who might benefit
• Booking priority is given to people from Cambridge University and Collaborating Institutes

• Basic computing skills
• Graduate level in Life Sciences
• Knowledge of basic bioinformatics terminology would be helpful but not necessary

Number of sessions: 1

• Introduction to UniProt and expert curation
• Searching and exploring UniProt protein entries
• UniProt analysis tools (Blast, Align, Retrieve/ ID Mapping)
• UniProt Proteomes
• Introduction to accessing UniProt programatically

• Exploring protein sequence and functional information with UniProt

A mixture of presentations and "hands on" exercises

0.5

On demand