Submission of updates or corrections to Swiss-Prot

A few tips and guidelines

Some examples of the type of information we are actively seeking: sequence updates; post-translational modifications; confirmation at the protein level of part of a DNA translated sequence; functional information; presence of specific domains in the sequence; alternative names for the protein or the gene coding for it; subunit structure; mass-spectrometry data; strain name; etc. In fact it would be shorter to state what we are not interested in!
If you are familiar with the Swiss-Prot format we encourage you to submit your updates and/or corrections using that format, but this is not a prerequisite and we prefer that you provide a longer textual description of what you are submitting rather than spend time trying to fit your data to our format.
In the case you are reporting published information, please make sure that you provide a complete reference (authors lists with initials, journal, volume, page range and year). You can, if you wish, replace a full reference with a Medline UID (Unique Identifier).
In the case you are reporting unpublished information, please provide the name of the people that will be associated with a particular item of information.
Whenever you are reporting data relevant to a particular position or stretch of residues in a sequence, always use an absolute numbering system that starts with the first residue of the sequence in the entry.
Swiss-Prot is a curated database and not an unedited archive or repository. We are therefore making no promise as to whether we will accept to represent in a given entry all data sent to us. But when we do not make use of some item of information, we will report back.
You will receive back by email from a Swiss-Prot annotator in Geneva or at the EBI the revised sequence entry. Any further comments can be sent back directly to that annotator.

Last modified28/Feb/2003

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