> you can't for example query that DB with question: give me diseases which can be attributed to broken pathways synthesizing protein X, you would need to do a

> you can't for example query that DB with question: give me diseases which can be attributed to broken pathways synthesizing protein X, you would need to do a lot of manual work and check external databases of uncertain quality. nod Uniprot is more useful if you're looking for the actual "bare metal" NN and AA sequences. Which is rather important in its own right, obviously: Sooner or later you DO need the actual sequences if you're going to do something with them in real life. But uniprot doesn't -itself- give you an understanding of what that code is then doing.