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In 2011, we have started to use the Evidence Codes Ontology (ECO) to describe the evidences for UniProtKB annotations. Since then, this ontology has been extended and the GO Consortium has published a mapping of their GO evidence codes to ECO. We have adapted our mapping to ECO accordingly to have equivalent evidence codes for UniProtKB and GO annotations.
We have added isoform-specific cross-references to the RefSeq database. The format of these cross-references is as described in release 2014_03.
Cross-references have been added to MaxQB, a database of large proteomics projects. MaxQB is available at http://maxqb.biochem.mpg.de/mxdb/.
Cross-references to ProtClustDB have been removed.
New diseases added, existing diseases modified and two diseases deleted.
The UniParc XML format uses dbReference elements to represent cross-references to external database records that contain the same sequence as the UniParc record. Additional information about an external database record is provided with different types ofproperty child elements, e.g. the species is represented with a property of the type "NCBI_taxonomy_id" that stores an NCBItaxonomy identifier in its value attribute. In the past, all external database records described a single species.