X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fws%2Fdbsources%2FUniprot.java;h=6fc913b6975b1f4decb86b98f3dc89e974c160be;hb=76821e9f28923b6f3ae8f226e01d0156e7b7f847;hp=6f5f03315bd4099ee026f886580c6d36ab904f9e;hpb=e7511d42dc76995533b2934c71d2611dd5796abc;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java
index 6f5f033..6fc913b 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ import jalview.datamodel.PDBEntry;
 import jalview.datamodel.Sequence;
 import jalview.datamodel.SequenceFeature;
 import jalview.datamodel.SequenceI;
+import jalview.gui.Preferences;
 import jalview.schemes.ResidueProperties;
+import jalview.util.Platform;
 import jalview.util.StringUtils;
 import jalview.ws.seqfetcher.DbSourceProxyImpl;
 import jalview.xml.binding.embl.ROOT;
@@ -71,6 +73,8 @@ public class Uniprot extends DbSourceProxyImpl
 
   private static final String BAR_DELIMITER = "|";
 
+  private static Regex ACCESSION_REGEX;
+
   /**
    * Constructor
    */
@@ -103,7 +107,12 @@ public class Uniprot extends DbSourceProxyImpl
   @Override
   public Regex getAccessionValidator()
   {
-    return new Regex("([A-Z]+[0-9]+[A-Z0-9]+|[A-Z0-9]+_[A-Z0-9]+)");
+    if (ACCESSION_REGEX == null)
+    {
+      ACCESSION_REGEX = Platform
+              .newRegex("([A-Z]+[0-9]+[A-Z0-9]+|[A-Z0-9]+_[A-Z0-9]+)");
+    }
+    return ACCESSION_REGEX;
   }
 
   /*