Uniprot : Understanding accession numbers
Accession numbers in uniprot are string of the form Q3TET3 or O043566 or A0A0P7VRI8. I was wondering how the accession numbers of the form A0A0P7VRI8 differ from the other two?
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They have 4 more characters :)
The longer answer: All UniProt accessions used to be 6 characters, but they used all of those up and so introduced a new 10-character format.
Uniprotkb Accession Number Format To Be Extended To 10 Characters
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Thanks Neilfws for the correct answer. Just adding a link to the UniProt entry view user manual for accession numbers: http://www.uniprot.org/help/accession_numbers
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