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While looking for a birthday and farewell (I was just leaving the Swiss-Prot group) present for Amos Bairoch, I came across a company that creates custom action figures. Here’s the result!

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have strict policies regarding the use of GPLed code, due to the somewhat viral nature of this license.

Here’s the new “Powerpuff Girls”–inspired theme for the new UniProt website.

Fake ad for an “annotation robot” that could be used to replace human database curators. Shown at the Christmas dinner of the Swiss-Prot group.

The search is on for a new UniProt logo. Here are some ideas…

We’ve been looking for a decent ontology editor for a while now. The problem is that most editors are either to technical or too cumbersome to use for entering a lot of data. But it looks like we have finally found something suitable!

It looks like our initiative to port all of our code to a more compact and efficient language didn’t get very far. So what next?

Here’s a short movie with some predictions about what I think is going to happen at Swiss-Prot next year. Shown at our Christmas dinner. Warning: May contain insider jokes…

For years people have been misspelling Swiss-Prot…

To remain complaint with NIH accessibility requirements, UniProt databases will be distributed in MP3 format for visually impaired users.