How to retrieve accession from Uniprot?

Question

[Learner]

I have a bunch of sequenes and i want to get their Uniprot accession number.

Is there any way to do them automatically rather than doing them one by one?

[GenoMax]

Not if you only have sequences. You would have to do BLAST @Uniprot to first identify what they are to get that information.

[Learner]

@genomax I thought so, is there any automatic way to do the blast for a bunch of protein in your opinion ? I googled it already but the stuff did not lead me to anything

[GenoMax]

You could download uniprot sequences and then create a blast index locally to search against. I am not sure if NCBI command line blastp --remote allows you to search against Uniprot db (called swissprot) that is present in web version? That would be another option.

Answer 1

[c.chakraborty]

Hey if you have a set of amino acid sequences you can copy them on Uniprot- Peptide search, each sequence separated by line, also identify the species you are investigating, and you will retrieve their names, Uniprot id.