LICENCE & CITATION POLICY

Human Protein Atlas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

While we encourage you to use these resources for your research or other noncommercial purposes, we want to ensure that our content is given proper citation in all cases where it is used publicly. For clarification about commercial use restrictions, please read the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

If you are unsure about how to cite this source or would like written approval for a specific use that is otherwise prohibited, please contact us at: contact@proteinatlas.org

We encourage you to send us a copy of your publication or other work citing these resources using the email address above. Such examples help us document and better understand how our content is being used, and thus guide and support our continued efforts to provide useful open public resources.

Citation guidelines for the Human Protein Atlas


General citation of the Human Protein Atlas

If you cite or display any content, or reference our organization, in any format, written or otherwise, including print or web publications, presentations, grant applications, websites, other online applications such as blogs, or other works, you must follow these guidelines.

  • Include a reference to our Primary publication, or one of the other publications listed under Other relevant publications, as stated below.
AND

Specific citation to images, genes, or data

If you use images, or reference a specific gene, or other data downloaded from the site, in addition to citing the Human Protein Atlas, please also cite the specific image, gene, or data used and the URL that links directly to that information in a manner that will allow a third party to navigate to that image or data on the site.

  • Include image credit: Human Protein Atlas
AND
  • Include citation to the specific image, gene, or data used and the URL that links directly to that information: image/gene/data available from v##.proteinatlas.org
    Where ## indicates the desired version of the atlas.

Primary publication


Uhlén et al (2015). Tissue-based map of the human proteome. Science
PubMed: 25613900 DOI: 10.1126/science.1260419

Other relevant publications


Uhlen et al (2010). Towards a knowledge-based Human Protein Atlas. Nat Biotechnol.
PubMed: 21139605 DOI: 10.1038/nbt1210-1248

Berglund et al (2008). A genecentric Human Protein Atlas for expression profiles based on antibodies. Mol Cell Proteomics.
PubMed: 18669619 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.R800013-MCP200

Uhlén et al (2005). A human protein atlas for normal and cancer tissues based on antibody proteomics. Mol Cell Proteomics.
PubMed: 16127175 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M500279-MCP200

Pontén et al (2008). The Human Protein Atlas - a tool for pathology. J Pathol.
PubMed: 18853439 DOI: 10.1002/path.2440

Integrating our data into a website


When integrating our data into a website, for example, using our XML-files, cite the source in a manner that is clear, accurate and easily discoverable and link to the source. Also, be sure that our content is never displayed in the absence of such citation.