Registry Uniprot Core Ontology

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Properties and classes used for protein annotation.

Prefix: uniprot.core
Keywords: biology ontology
Version: 2026_03
Links: Homepage OWL Part of uniprot

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: certain Resolve
Example CURIE: uniprot.core:certain

Contacts

Contact: Alex Bateman 0000-0002-6982-4660 bateman-research
Group Contact: Mailing List
Contributor: creator Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`UNIPROT`
BioPortal	`bioportal`	`UNIPROT`
LOV	`lov`	`uniprot`
OLS	`ols`	`uniprotrdfs`

Providers

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A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier certain is used to demonstrate the providers available for Uniprot Core Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
Uniprot Core Ontology	`uniprot.core`	http://purl.uniprot.org/core/certain
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/uniprot.core:certain

Get the version:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_version("uniprot.core")
'2026_03'

This name annotation was originally annotated in BioPortal and is redistributed under the unknown license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("uniprot.core")
'Uniprot Core Ontology'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("uniprot.core")
'http://purl.uniprot.org/core/'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("uniprot.core")
'https://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/current_release/rdf/core.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("uniprot.core")
'Alex Bateman'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("uniprot.core")
'agb@ebi.ac.uk'

Get the contact's GitHub handle:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_github("uniprot.core")
'bateman-research'

Get the contact's ORCiD identifier:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_orcid("uniprot.core")
'0000-0002-6982-4660'