- Course overview
- Search within this course
- What is UniProt?
- Where does the data come from?
- Why do we need UniProt?
- When to use UniProt
- Quiz: Check your learning I
- How to access and navigate UniProt
- How to search UniProt
- Annotation score
- Quiz: Check your learning II
- Exploring a UniProtKB entry
- How to use UniProt tools
- How to get data from UniProt
- How to submit data to UniProt
- When to use UniProt: guided example
- Exercise: finding entries with 3D structures
- Exercise: mapping other database identifiers to UniProt
- Summary
- Your feedback
- Get help and support on UniProt
- References
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When to use UniProt
You can perform many different tasks using UniProt including the following (Figure 9):
When not to use UniProt
UniProt cannot help you if you:
- Want to buy any kind of biological product. For this, you need to access the online catalogues of the many suppliers of biochemicals and reagents for the life sciences.
- Need medical advice. UniProt staff are biologists and biochemists who are not trained to give medical advice.