Examples
- Select all taxa from the UniProt taxonomyPREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?taxon FROM <http://sparql.uniprot.org/taxonomy> WHERE { ?taxon a up:Taxon . }
- Select all bacterial taxa and their scientific name from the UniProt taxonomyPREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX taxon: <http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?taxon ?name WHERE { ?taxon a up:Taxon . ?taxon up:scientificName ?name . # Taxon subclasses are materialized, do not use rdfs:subClassOf+ ?taxon rdfs:subClassOf taxon:2 . }
- Select all UniProtKB entries, and their organism and amino acid sequences (including isoforms), for E. coli K12 and all its strainsPREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX taxon: <http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?protein ?organism ?isoform ?sequence WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:organism ?organism . # Taxon subclasses are materialized, do not use rdfs:subClassOf+ ?organism rdfs:subClassOf taxon:83333 . ?protein up:sequence ?isoform . ?isoform rdf:value ?sequence . }
- Select the UniProtKB entry with the mnemonic 'A4_HUMAN'PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?protein WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:mnemonic 'A4_HUMAN' }
- Select a mapping of UniProtKB to PDB entries using the UniProtKB cross-references to the PDB databasePREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?protein ?db WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein rdfs:seeAlso ?db . ?db up:database <http://purl.uniprot.org/database/PDB> }
- Select all cross-references to external databases of the category '3D structure databases' of UniProtKB entries that are classified with the keyword 'Acetoin biosynthesis (KW-0005)'PREFIX keywords: <http://purl.uniprot.org/keywords/> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT DISTINCT ?link WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:classifiedWith keywords:5 . ?protein rdfs:seeAlso ?link . ?link up:database ?db . ?db up:category '3D structure databases' }
- Select reviewed UniProtKB entries (Swiss-Prot), and their recommended protein name, that have a preferred gene name that contains the text 'DNA'PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?protein ?name WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:reviewed true . ?protein up:recommendedName ?recommended . ?recommended up:fullName ?name . ?protein up:encodedBy ?gene . ?gene skos:prefLabel ?text . FILTER CONTAINS(?text, 'DNA') }
- Select the preferred gene name and disease annotation of all human UniProtKB entries that are known to be involved in a diseasePREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> PREFIX taxon: <http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?name ?text WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:organism taxon:9606 . ?protein up:encodedBy ?gene . ?gene skos:prefLabel ?name . ?protein up:annotation ?annotation . ?annotation a up:Disease_Annotation . ?annotation rdfs:comment ?text }
- Select all human UniProtKB entries with a sequence variant that leads to a 'loss of function'PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX taxon: <http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?protein ?text WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:organism taxon:9606 . ?protein up:annotation ?annotation . ?annotation a up:Natural_Variant_Annotation . ?annotation rdfs:comment ?text . FILTER (CONTAINS(?text, 'loss of function')) }
- Select all human UniProtKB entries with a sequence variant that leads to a tyrosine to phenylalanine substitutionPREFIX faldo: <http://biohackathon.org/resource/faldo#> PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX taxon: <http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?protein ?annotation ?begin ?text WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein ; up:organism taxon:9606 ; up:annotation ?annotation . ?annotation a up:Natural_Variant_Annotation ; rdfs:comment ?text ; up:substitution ?substitution ; up:range/faldo:begin [ faldo:position ?begin ; faldo:reference ?sequence ] . ?sequence rdf:value ?value . BIND (substr(?value, ?begin, 1) as ?original) . FILTER(?original = 'Y' && ?substitution = 'F') . }
- Select all UniProtKB entries with annotated transmembrane regions and the regions' begin and end coordinates on the canonical sequencePREFIX faldo: <http://biohackathon.org/resource/faldo#> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT ?protein ?begin ?end WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:annotation ?annotation . ?annotation a up:Transmembrane_Annotation . ?annotation up:range ?range . ?range faldo:begin/faldo:position ?begin . ?range faldo:end/faldo:position ?end }
- Select all UniProtKB entries that were integrated on the 30th of November 2010PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> SELECT ?protein WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:created '2010-11-30'^^xsd:date }
- Was any UniProtKB entry integrated on the 9th of January 2013PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> ASK WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:created '2013-01-09'^^xsd:date }
- Construct new triples of the type 'HumanProtein' from all human UniProtKB entriesPREFIX taxon: <http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> CONSTRUCT { ?protein a up:HumanProtein . } WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein up:organism taxon:9606 }
- Select the average number of cross-references to the PDB database of UniProtKB entries that have at least one cross-reference to the PDB databasePREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX up: <http://purl.uniprot.org/core/> SELECT (AVG(?linksToPdbPerEntry) AS ?avgLinksToPdbPerEntry) WHERE { SELECT ?protein (COUNT(DISTINCT ?db) AS ?linksToPdbPerEntry) WHERE { ?protein a up:Protein . ?protein rdfs:seeAlso ?db . ?db up:database <http://purl.uniprot.org/database/PDB> . } GROUP BY ?protein ORDER BY DESC(?linksToPdbPerEntry) }
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This SPARQL endpoint contains all UniProt data. It is free to access and supports the SPARQL 1.1 Standard.
There are 2,213,304,453 triples in this release (2025_02). The query timeout is 45 minutes. All triples are available in the default graph. There are 19 named graphs.