UniProt TrEMBL
UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)
Fetch any unreviewed UniProt entry by accession (a first lookup can take about a minute), or count how many proteins an organism has.
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22 datasets are live today, 10 are being indexed and 25 more wait in our archive. New layers go live as soon as they pass verification against their source.
UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)
Fetch any unreviewed UniProt entry by accession (a first lookup can take about a minute), or count how many proteins an organism has.
/lookup/organism/whereisUniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)
Paste a protein sequence and find similar reviewed proteins, with E-values and percent identity.
/search/search/result/whereisEMBL-EBI (MGnify) · 2026_07
Retrieve any MGnify protein (MGYP ID) and its sequence, including ones outside the clustered representatives.
/lookup/whereisEMBL-EBI (MGnify) · 2026_07
Look up representative metagenomic proteins by ID; a miss falls through to the full MGnify set instead of reporting absence.
/lookup/whereisEMBL-EBI (MGnify); counts indexed by BioQ · 2026_07
Ask how many protein clusters were found in soil, the human gut or any other biome, including its sub-biomes.
/biomeBioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07
Find protein clusters that occur in the same metagenome assemblies as a cluster of interest, with their habitats.
/cooccur/neighbourhoodBioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify sequence metadata · 2026_07
See which genes sit next to a metagenomic protein on its contig, with coordinates, strand and gap sizes.
/syntenyEMBL-EBI (MGnify, Pfam) · 2026_07
List the Pfam domains of a metagenomic protein, or every protein that carries a given domain such as PF00078.
/domains/domainBioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07
Find large protein families with no known domain, filter by biome and size, and see the annotated families they co-occur with.
/unexplored/unexplored_with_knownwwPDB / RCSB PDB
Get the method, resolution, title and sequence of any PDB entry by its four-character code.
/structure/whereisGoogle DeepMind / EMBL-EBI · v4
Check whether a Swiss-Prot protein has an AlphaFold model and how confident the prediction is.
/structureEMBL-EBI · 37
List measured IC50, Ki, Kd or EC50 values for a target gene or a drug, with unit classes kept apart and the assay type on every row.
/affinityDrugCentral (University of New Mexico)
Find activity values of approved drugs against a target, side by side with ChEMBL and GtoPdb.
/affinityIUPHAR / BPS
See expert-curated affinities for receptors, ion channels and enzymes by gene or ligand.
/affinityNCBI
List the variants in a gene or genomic window, filter to pathogenic ones, and see review status; uncertain variants are never promoted.
/variant/geneSTRING consortium · v12.0
List known and predicted interaction partners of a protein with STRING's combined score, by protein name or, for human, UniProt accession.
/interactionBioGRID · 4.4.248
Find experimentally reported physical and genetic interactions for a gene, with the experimental system and PubMed ID.
/interactionBroad Institute (DepMap) · 24Q4
Ask which cancer lineages depend on a gene, or which genes a lineage depends on, with mutation context.
/depmapBroad Institute (DepMap) · 24Q4
Compare a gene's expression or copy number across cancer cell lines and lineages.
/omicsGenome Reference Consortium (Ensembl primary assembly) · GRCh38
Read the exact DNA sequence of any human region, for example chr11:1000000-1000100.
/dnaNCBI
Read any region of an archaeal, fungal, protist, mitochondrial or viral RefSeq sequence by accession and coordinates.
/dnaGenome Reference Consortium (Ensembl) · GRCm39
Read the DNA sequence of any mouse genomic region.
/dnaEach layer goes live only after it answers a real question with a known answer and matches its source.
BioQ opens to the public at bioq.bio, with 20 of 22 engine layers answering.
UniProt TrEMBL lookups reach full coverage: all 149,430,635 entries.
DNA region reads extend to NCBI RefSeq genomes (archaea, fungi, mitochondria, protozoa, viruses) and the mouse genome GRCm39.
Gene neighbourhoods on MGnify contigs go live (177.9 million gene placements).
DepMap 24Q4 gene dependency, expression and copy-number queries go live.
STRING v12.0 and BioGRID 4.4.248 interaction lookups go live.
Protein-to-domain lookup for 2.99 billion MGnify proteins goes live.
Organism counts across UniProt TrEMBL and MGnify biome counts go live.
Binding-affinity search over ChEMBL 37, DrugCentral and GtoPdb goes live (5.15 million measurements).
Sequence similarity search against UniProt Swiss-Prot goes live.
Domain-to-protein search across Pfam annotations of MGnify proteins goes live.
MGnify co-occurrence index completed and served: 5.74 billion records.
ClinVar variant lookup and the catalogue of unannotated protein families go live.
Human genome GRCh38 region reads go live.
PDB and AlphaFold structure lookup goes live.
First engine: MGnify protein and representative-sequence lookup, and UniProt TrEMBL ID lookup.
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Wellcome Sanger Institute · 8.4 (fitted data dated 24 Jul 2022)
Ask how sensitive cancer cell lines are to a drug (ln IC50 in uM, AUC), per GDSC dataset.
BioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07
Check whether an exact protein sequence is already present among MGnify representatives.
BioQ, from UniProt Swiss-Prot, Ensembl / Ensembl Genomes proteomes and MGnify
Find homologs of a protein across bacteria, archaea, plants, fungi and animals, beyond Swiss-Prot.
UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)
Search a protein sequence against all of UniProt at 90% redundancy.
EMBL-EBI · 37
Adds ChEMBL binding values reported in ug/mL (converted with each compound's molecular weight) and rows ChEMBL flags as non-standard.
EMBL-EBI · 37
List every target a ChEMBL molecule has activity against, or every molecule tested on a target.
EMBL-EBI (InterPro)
Translate Pfam domain hits into InterPro entries and their descriptions.
BioQ, built from EMBL-EBI MGnify · 2026_07
Return the full list of cluster IDs found in a biome, not just a sample.
BioQ, computed from UniProt Swiss-Prot with ESM-2 650M
Find remote homologs that alignment search misses, by embedding similarity.
BioQ, computed from DepMap 24Q4 expression · 24Q4
Find the cancer cell lines whose expression profile is closest to a given line.
Already downloaded and checksummed. Indexing order follows what researchers ask for.
BindingDB · 202610
Will add about 1.59 million non-ChEMBL binding measurements to affinity queries.
LINCS / Broad Institute · GEO GSE92742 + GSE70138
Not yet searchable; would let you ask which compounds reverse or mimic an expression signature.
GTEx Consortium · v10
Not yet searchable; would answer where in the healthy body a gene is expressed.
NCI TCGA via UCSC Xena
Not yet searchable; would compare a gene's expression across tumour types.
Broad Institute (DepMap) · 24Q4
Not yet searchable in full; would list every mutation in a cell line or gene.
Broad Institute · 19Q4
Not yet searchable; would show which cancer lines a non-oncology drug kills.
Broad Institute · v1.0, v2.0, v2.1, v2.2
Not yet searchable; would compare drug sensitivity with GDSC and PRISM.
NCI Developmental Therapeutics Program
Not yet searchable; would show the NCI-60 activity pattern of a compound.
NCBI
Not yet searchable; would resolve compound names and structures to PubChem IDs.
EMBL-EBI (MGnify) · 2026_07
Not yet searchable by sequence similarity.
UniProt Consortium (EMBL-EBI / SIB / PIR)
Not yet searchable.
EMBL-EBI (Ensembl) · Ensembl 116; Ensembl Genomes 63
Not yet searchable on its own (parts feed the cross-kingdom search set being indexed).
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Not yet searchable; would list trials for a drug or target.
Open Targets
Not yet searchable; would give the mechanism of action of a drug.
TPMC authors (Nature Communications, 2024)
Not yet searchable.
China National GeneBank (CNGB)
Not yet searchable.
cnGVC authors (Zenodo record 14671177) · Zenodo 14671177
Not yet searchable.
NCBI
Not yet searchable.
GENCODE consortium · v47
Not yet searchable.
EMBL-EBI (InterPro / Pfam)
Not yet searchable.
eggNOG
Not yet searchable.
Human Protein Atlas
Not yet searchable.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Not yet searchable.
Gene Ontology Consortium
Not yet searchable.
Broad Institute · 2020-03-24
Not yet searchable.
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