Protein Representations

Learn to navigate protein databases and work with protein data computationally — from UniProt exploration to sequence analysis.

What You'll Learn

• Navigating UniProt and reference proteomes
• Understanding protein annotations and metadata
• Downloading and working with FASTA files
• Exploring protein embeddings
• Building foundations for protein ML workflows

Why This Wall Matters

Proteins are the workhorses of biology. Whether you're studying disease mechanisms, engineering enzymes, or building ML models for protein function, you need to access and interpret protein data effectively. This wall teaches you to navigate the protein universe.

This wall assumes basic Python comfort — if you're new to coding, warm up on the Python basics wall first!