R: Fetch UniProt Entry Data.

uniprot {bio3d} | R Documentation

## 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:
http://www.uniprot.org/.

### See Also

`blast.pdb`, `get.seq`

### Examples

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

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

    ## End(Not run)

[Package bio3d version 2.3-4 Index]