A New Look to UniProt

 https://beta.uniprot.org/

 

The UniProt Consortium is happy to announce a new look and feel to our web pages, designed to improve the user experience and enhance your journey of discovery through the world of protein science. We have only released the beta version of the site so far, but please take time to explore and send us your feedback - we will be working hard over the next few months to improve the site, ready for it to replace our current website in 2022.

Here are a few examples to get you started, but please make use of the entire website and let us know where we can still make further improvements.

You can find your favorite protein with a simple search - for example, by typing ‘hemoglobin’ or a function description 'apoptosis' or even a disease name such as ‘cystic fibrosis’ in the search box.

 

This brings up many hits in our new ‘card view’ but it is easy to filter your search results down to more manageable numbers by selecting a species or by limiting the results to reviewed, expertly curated entries using the left-hand menu.

The card view gives a quick overview of what data you can find in each entry - the CFTR protein has 210 reviewed variants and 38 3D structures, for example. The entries are ranked by the amount of content, so you will always see those with the most information at the top of your search.

We have embedded our ProtVista feature viewer directly into the entry so that you can both see and read about protein sequence features at the same time.

You can also see the structured Gene Ontology annotation in a summarized ribbon view, developed by the Alliance for Genomic Resources.

You can view protein 3D structures - both experimental (when available) or as predicted by AlphaFold (http://insideuniprot.blogspot.com/2021/07/).

And take a look at the subcellular location of your protein, pictured using SwissBioPics.

 

We hope you find this first look at the new UniProt website useful, and easy to navigate. Please let us know if you have any problems at all, or if you can think of any way in which it can be further improved by using the contact form accessible from every page.