PPAP The UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Plant Proteome Annotation Program

The Plant Proteome Annotation Program (PPAP) focuses on the annotation of plant-specific proteins and protein families.

Each protein is annotated according to the quality standards of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot providing a wealth of information that includes the description of the function, domain structure, subcellular location, post-translational modifications, variants, similarities to other proteins and numerous cross-references to various databases including plant databases (TAIR, Gramene, MaizeGDB and GeneFarm).

Our major effort is currently directed towards the two model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa. As additional plant genomes become available we will broaden our scope and increase the annotation of proteins from other plants.