Key Characteristics of UniProt versus GenBank and RefSeq

UniProtGenBank and RefSeq
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Protein data onlyProtein and nucleotide data
Curated in Swiss-Prot, not in TrEMBLCurated in RefSeq, not in GenBank

From: Chapter 1, GenBank: The Nucleotide Sequence Database

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