Infrastructure for the life sciences: design and implementation of the UniProt website |
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| Authors: | Eric Jain Amos Bairoch Severine Duvaud Isabelle Phan Nicole Redaschi Baris E Suzek Maria J Martin Peter McGarvey Elisabeth Gasteiger |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Swiss-Prot Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CMU, 1 Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland;(2) Department of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1 Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland;(3) The EMBL Outstation –European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK;(4) Protein Information Resource (PIR), Georgetown University Medical Center, 3300 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA |
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| Abstract: | Background The UniProt consortium was formed in 2002 by groups from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the Protein Information Resource (PIR) at Georgetown University, and soon afterwards the website was set up as a central entry point to UniProt resources. Requests to this address were redirected to one of the three organisations' websites. While these sites shared a set of static pages with general information about UniProt, their pages for searching and viewing data were different. To provide users with a consistent view and to cut the cost of maintaining three separate sites, the consortium decided to develop a common website for UniProt. Following several years of intense development and a year of public beta testing, the domain was switched to the newly developed site described in this paper in July 2008. |
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