There are many proteins crouching in the recesses of databanks whose role in vivo eludes researchers. Despite similarities of all kinds they may share with other proteins, they seem to have been designed for another purpose... More.
New release with updated proteomics data, a new kinase portal and more. More
SIB Bioinformatics Awards
2019-01-25
Are you a bioinformatician with a remarkable early career, a graduate student who published an outstanding paper or did you develop a bioinformatics resource with an important impact on the life science community? Call for SIB Awards is open!
No one likes the cold. Humans wear scarves, fur boots, quilted coats and woollen hats to keep the harshness of winter out while other creatures grow their own fur or line their bodies with a thick layer of blubber... More.
Movement is what sustains life. Organisms need to move to find food, seek shelter and to reproduce. Mobility is also essential inside organisms where cells are continuously dividing and migrating... More.
A new resource (WeStBESel) to select sequential B-cell epitope has been added.
A special collection of protein spotlight articles
2018-10-15
Almost 20 years on, over 200 articles have been written and Protein Spotlight has thousands of readers across the world. We are launching a crowdfunding campaign to publish a collection of 100 of the best-loved articles.
New neXtProt data release 2018-09-03
2018-10-11
New release with updated Human Protein Atlas data and new post translation modification data. More
There are times in life when things are best left unsaid. So you bite your tongue or someone bites it for you. Either way, you are silenced and no - or less - harm is done. Nature also has its techniques for muffling genes .... More.
Left only to the passage of time, everything gravitates towards chaos. Gardens become overgrown. Roads gather potholes and cracks. Relationships wither, and teeth rot. We have ways of dealing with this however.... More.
Protein Spotlight: Life, a subtle balance
2018-07-27
Life is a continuous balance between what needs to remain, and what must disappear. We are not aware of it but our bodies unceasingly shed cells that have received orders to die, which is a necessary process if ... More.