2. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: Questions, Answers and a few Tips

3. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Everything you always wanted to know about UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot… and others were not afraid to ask !

4. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Two main contact points: swiss-prot@expasy.org help@uniprot.org

5. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Some have problems finding a protein…

6. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Troubles finding a protein… IgG protein from Lama pacas I cannot find the IgG protein from Lama pacas in your server. “Lama pacas” = Lama guanicoe pacos (Alpaca) (Lama pacos)

7. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Troubles finding a protein… IgG protein from Lama pacas I cannot find the IgG protein from Lama pacas in your server. “Lama pacas” = Lama guanicoe pacos (Alpaca) (Lama pacos) 40 entries in UniProtKB (5 Swiss-Prot, 35 TrEMBL), but no IgG; 98 entries at the EMBL database, no IgG; In addition: Ig are not annotated in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (currently many Ig sequences are stored only in UniParc); Lama pacos is not an annotation priority.

8. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Model-organism oriented annotation 1.Complete microbial proteomes and plastid–encoded proteins (HAMAP) (SP131&132) 2.Human proteins and their orthologs in other mammals (HPI) (SP129) 3.Plant proteins (A.thaliana and rice) (PPAP) (SP133) 4.Fungal proteomes (FPAP) (SP134) 5.Proteomes of representative subsets of viral strains (SP135) 6.Toxins and anti-microbial peptides (ToxProt) (SP139) 7.Drosophila proteome (SP137) 8.C.elegans proteome (SP138) 9.Xenopus proteome (SP136) … Priorities shared by all organisms 1.Post-Translational Modifications (PTMs) (SP126) 2.3D structures (SP128) 3.Protein-protein interactions (SP) … UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot annotation priorities (see poster SP106)

9. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Troubles finding a protein… Dear Folks, I cannot find an entry for human apolipoprotein B100 in Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL. Am I doing something wrong?

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13. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers In the annotation process, we try to add all synonyms found for a given protein/gene in the literature and other databases. In the future, our search engines will cope with dashes, Roman/Arabic figures, etc.

14. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Troubles finding a protein… beta-2 adrenoreceptor I am trying to locate the entry ofr the human beta-2 adrenoreceptor protein, but I don't seem to get any entries. Can you help me to locate this entry, please? The missing synonym was added

15. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers protein gi/34906958 I could not find the information of protein gi/34906958 Troubles finding a protein… From the NCBI documentation: => 1. restricted to GenBank (not agreed upon with EMBL and DDBJ) 2. not stable identifiers Of note, cross-references to RefSeq soon available from UniProtKB

16. http://www.pir.uniprot.org/search/idmapping.shtml

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18. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers … eventually they find it !

19. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers help #12995 This is my new question: DO all the Swiss-Prot proteins of human and Arabidopsis have CDS nucleotide sequences in database? DO all the Swiss-Prot proteins of human and Arabidopsis have CDS nucleotide sequences in database? What should I do to get them ?

20. From EMBL to TrEMBL CDS

21. From EMBL to TrEMBL

22. CDS From EMBL to TrEMBL Ref.

23. CDS From EMBL to UniProtKB/TrEMBL Ref.

24. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers 8’133 UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries In the current UniProt release (8.4 – 25-Jul-2006), there are 8’133 UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries without cross-references to EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ (over a total of 230’133 entries – 3.5%).

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27. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot/Submissions/submissions.html

28. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers help #12995 This is my new question: What should I do to get them ? DO all the Swiss-Prot proteins of human and Arabidopsis have CDS nucleotide sequences in database? What should I do to get them ?

30. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers MAPKAKK3 is still a TREMBL entry (since 1996) I found that the UNIPROT entry for human MAPKAKK3 is still a TREMBL entry (since 1996) and could not be found in SWISSPROT. Is there a specific reason why certain entries do not enter the SWISSPROT section and get an'correct UNIPROT ID' ?

32. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers MAPKAKK3 is still a TREMBL entry (since 1996) I found that the UNIPROT entry for human MAPKAKK3 is still a TREMBL entry (since 1996) and could not be found in SWISSPROT. Is there a specific reason why certain entries do not enter the SWISSPROT section and get an'correct UNIPROT ID' ? MAPKAKK3 is not a valid gene name; the corresponding TrEMBL entry was not found and could not be annotated. Please use the update request form (or cite accession numbers)!

33. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Is there a specific reason why certain entries do not enter the SWISSPROT section I found that the UNIPROT entry for human MAPKAKK3 is still a TREMBL entry (since 1996) and could not be found in SWISSPROT. Is there a specific reason why certain entries do not enter the SWISSPROT section and get an'correct UNIPROT ID' ?

34. UniProtKB: From TrEMBL to Swiss-Prot and ~60 uperannotators at SIB and EBI supported by a dedicated programming team

35. Sequence merge & analysis High performance bioinformatics tools UniProtKB: From TrEMBL to Swiss-Prot

36. Sequencing errors ? Polymorphisms ? Alternative splicing ? Alternative initiation ? Usage of an alternative promoter ? RNA editing ? Sequence annotation Selenocysteine ? Fragment ? Same gene ? 1 gene / 1 species = 1 Swiss-Prot entry -> Annotation and documentation of all the differences

37. Sequence merge & analysis High performance bioinformatics tools Literature information (>1’700 journals cited) Databases and external scientific expertise In order to avoid redundancy, once manually annotated and integrated into Swiss-Prot, the entry is deleted from TrEMBL X Annotation and sequence check UniProtKB: From TrEMBL to Swiss-Prot

38. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Dear Curator, One of two phosphorylation sites, ser 176 described by us in the paper is not listed in the expasy web site. I am the main author of the paper describing two new phopshorylation sites for human growth hormone (P01241) published in Proteomics 4:587-598(2004). One of two phosphorylation sites, ser 176 described by us in the paper is not listed in the expasy web site. If the curator simply missed the site, please make the necessary update. If ser 176 was not included in the table feature for other reasons, please let us know.

39. www.expasy.org

40. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers The reference has been added… … and the modifications described

41. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Searching UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot I wish to retrieve separately, all the bacteria and viruses protein sequences with virulence factors I wish to retrieve separately, all the bacteria and viruses protein sequences with virulence factors, but what I manage to get when i type "virulence" as a keyword are all the protein sequences with virulence as a keyword. Are the sequences i got here only from bacterial and virus? Any other organisms have this virulence factors? How could I specified the sequences,based on viral and bacterial virulense factors? I ll be really appreciated if you could help me. Thank you.

42. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Currently: Sequence Retrieval System (SRS)

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46. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers (PR#6943) Dear Sir/Madame, I have a question concerning selection of data from UniProt protein database. I wonder if there are any examples of two or more protein entries, which concern exactly the same protein of two or more individuals representing the same species. In other words, I would like to know, if each protein of a given species is represented by exactly one amino acids sequence. If there are some proteins of a given species which are represented by more than one amino acids sequence, which line of the entry should I use to group such entries together?

47. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers One Swiss-Prot entry  All protein products encoded by one gene in one species (including fragments, variations/polymorphisms, splice variants, sequencing errors…) UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot is non-redundant:

48. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Post-translational modifications (PTMs) alternative promoter usage alternative splicing mRNA editing etc. ~ 100’000 human transcripts ~ 25’000 human genes (with polymorphisms) ~ 1'000'000 human proteins Increase in complexity Genome Transcriptome Proteome

49. - 13 sequences (complete or partial) - derived from mRNA (n=6) or genomic DNA (n=7)

50. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Multiple alignment of the C-terminus of available GCR sequences Annotation of the sequence differences Alternative splicing ? Polymorphism ? Disease mutation ? Sequencing error (frameshift) ? Sequencing error (conflict) ? RNA editing ?

51. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Multiple alignment of C-terminus of the available GCR sequences

52. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Where to find the annotation about alternative splicing in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot ?

53. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers View « by default » on the ExPASy server Sequence description (Feature Table) Sequence (SQ) Cross-references (DR) Keywords (KW) References (RN, RP, RC, RX, RA, RL) Identifier & accession nr. (ID, AC, DT) Comments (CC) Protein and gene names Taxonomy (DE, GN, OC, OS, OG)

54. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers View « by default » on the ExPASy server Sequence description (Feature Table) Sequence (SQ) Cross-references (DR) Keywords (KW) References (RN, RP, RC, RX, RA, RL) Comments (CC) Identifier & accession nr. (ID, AC, DT) Protein and gene names Taxonomy (DE, GN, OC, OS, OG)

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56. … P04150 (GCR_HUMAN)

57. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers All the alternative sequences are available for Blast searches and protein identification tools (on the ExPASy server).

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60. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers Homo sapiens Currently in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, for Homo sapiens, 14’445 entries (~ as many genes) 7’975 alternative splicing isoforms -> 22’420 human sequences described not taking into account other diversity generating events…

61. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers How to download the sequences ?

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64. Fortaleza 31.VII.2006 UniProtKB: Questions and answers We ask you to send us the example Deacetylase for chitin and its price. Dear Sirs, We need deacetylase for the following purposes: 1. Deacetylation of fiber obtained from chitin. 2. Chitin deacetylation for obtaining chitosan oligosaccahrides. Evidently, it will be different types of deacetylase, because in case of the fiber decrease of molecular weight is not allowed, while in case of chitin deacetylation it is allowable and even desirable for oligomerisation of the product during deacetylation. We ask you to send us the example Deacetylase for chitin and its price. Dear, Could you inform me the price and delivery time ? At this moment I am looking for : bovine TGF beta1 I saw in web that you have this product with part# P18341 Could you inform me the price and delivery time ? And if bioinformatics is not funded properly, we could start a new business…