bio3d (version 2.1-2)

uniprot: Fetch UniProt Entry Data.

Description

Fetch protein sequence and functional information from the UniProt database.

Usage

uniprot(accid)

Arguments

accid

UniProt accession id.

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.

Details

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

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

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