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uniprot

Fetch UniProt Entry Data.


Description

Fetch protein sequence and functional information from the UniProt database.

Usage

uniprot(accid)

Arguments

accid

UniProt accession id.

Details

This is a basic utility function for downloading information from the UniProt database. UniProt contains protein sequence and functional information.

Value

Returns a list object with the following components:

accession

a character vector with UniProt accession id's.

name

abbreviated name.

fullName

full recommended protein name.

shortName

short protein name.

sequence

protein sequence.

gene

gene names.

organism

organism.

taxon

taxonomic lineage.

Author(s)

Lars Skjaerven

References

Grant, B.J. et al. (2006) Bioinformatics 22, 2695–2696.

See also the UniProt web-site for more information:
https://www.uniprot.org/.

See Also

Examples

## Not run: 
# UNIPROT server connection required - testing excluded

prot <- uniprot('PH4H_HUMAN')
prot$fullName
prot$sequence

## End(Not run)

bio3d

Biological Structure Analysis

v2.4-2
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Barry Grant [aut, cre], Xin-Qiu Yao [aut], Lars Skjaerven [aut], Julien Ide [aut]
Initial release

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