UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function, and variation information.

This webinar will give a brief introduction to the UniProt website and then highlight resources which should be of interest to people beginning work on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including students, early-stage researchers, and clinicians.

AMR constitutes one of the world’s most urgent public health problems.

We have been improving the annotation of various protein classes with a known role in AMR, including beta-lactamases, efflux pumps, ABC transporters, and a group of proteins, essential for the survival of resistant bacteria under therapeutic concentrations of antimicrobials, collectively known as the secondary resistome. Using these as examples, we will introduce some of the UniProt resources.

UniProt annotations are widely disseminated to other databases, including Rhea, EnsemblBacteria, PATRIC (Bacterial & Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center), BioCyc/EcoCyc and KEGG.

Please also take this opportunity to suggest additional curation targets to us, to enable us to better support ongoing AMR research.