by Yuqi Wang, Qinghua Wang, Hongzhan Huang, Wei Huang, Yongxing Chen, Peter B. McGarvey, Cathy H. Wu, Cecilia N. Arighi, on behalf of the UniProt Consortium
The UniProt knowledgebase is a public database for protein sequence and function, covering the tree of life and over 220 million protein entries. Now, the whole community can use a new crowdsourcing annotation system to help scale up UniProt curation and receive proper attribution for their biocuration work. The UniProt Knowledgebase is a public database for protein sequence and function, covering the tree of life. This Community Page article present a community submission system to harness timely scientific knowledge via crowdsourcing of the literature, creating a research ecosystem where researchers play an active role in scaling up UniProt curation, while receiving proper attribution for their biocuration work.