title: Plant protein annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase.
abstract: The Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, Protein Information Resource (PIR), and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) protein database activities have united to form the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) Consortium. UniProt presents three database layers: the UniProt Archive, the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB), and the UniProt Reference Clusters. The UniProtKB consists of two sections: UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (fully manually curated entries) and UniProtKB/TrEMBL (automated annotation, classification and extensive cross-references). New releases are published fortnightly. A specific Plant Proteome Annotation Program (http://www.expasy.org/sprot/ppap/) was initiated to cope with the increasing amount of data produced by the complete sequencing of plant genomes. Through UniProt, our aim is to provide the scientific community with a single, centralized, authoritative resource for protein sequences and functional information that will allow the plant community to fully explore and utilize the wealth of information available for both plant and non-plant model organisms.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Centre Medical Universitaire, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. michel.schneider@isb-sib.ch
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Amos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bairoch
authors.forename: Cathy H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Apweiler
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology; D030562:Databases, Protein; D007256:Information Systems; D020407:Internet; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D040901:Proteomics; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins