ProteomicsDB Search Proteins

Overview

Search ProteomicsDB for proteins by gene symbol, UniProt accession, or protein name. ProteomicsDB contains mass spectrometry-based proteomics data for human (and other organisms) proteins. Returns matching protein entries with UniProt IDs, gene names, protein names, entry names, and molecular masses. Useful for finding the correct UniProt accession before querying expression data with ProteomicsDB_get_protein_expression. Searches across gene name, UniProt ID, and protein name fields simultaneously.

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

102ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "max_results": {
      "description": "Maximum number of results to return (default: 20, max: 100)",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "operation": {
      "description": "Operation type",
      "enum": [
        "search_proteins"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "organism_id": {
      "description": "NCBI taxonomy ID for organism filter. Default: 9606 (human). Other options: 10090 (mouse), 10116 (rat).",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "query": {
      "description": "Search term - gene symbol (e.g., 'KRAS', 'TP53'), UniProt ID (e.g., 'P04637'), or protein name keyword (e.g., 'kinase', 'GTPase KRas')",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "operation",
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "max_results": 1,
  "operation": "",
  "organism_id": 1,
  "query": "BRCA1"
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_ProteomicsDB_search_proteins

Tool name

ProteomicsDB_search_proteins

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

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