Probably Uniprot is one of the most used and well-established services in bioinformatics worldwide. With more than 12 years, is one of the major resources of biological information and the reference catalog of protein sequence in the World. The aim of Uniprot is provide the scientific community with a single, centralized, authoritative resource for protein sequences and functional information. It started in 2002 when the Swiss‐Prot, TrEMBL and PIR protein database activities have united to form the Universal Protein Knowledgebase (UniProt) consortium.
