X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fws%2Fdbsources%2FUniprot.java;h=333175678f5547fd30f8d95eade305785764c15a;hb=2763845dada91cdfe266200cf852146c70392ad7;hp=4c984d46694c7dfc1dfbead7d661cd7a2f45db47;hpb=2de8acfae59aced665e4c37ad0f7dcc2ed68818e;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java
index 4c984d4..3331756 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/Uniprot.java
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ public class Uniprot extends DbSourceProxyImpl implements DbSourceProxy
    */
   public Regex getAccessionValidator()
   {
-    return null;
+    return new Regex("([A-Z]+[0-9]+[A-Z0-9]+|[A-Z0-9]+_[A-Z0-9]+)");
   }
 
   /*
@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ public class Uniprot extends DbSourceProxyImpl implements DbSourceProxy
    */
   public boolean isValidReference(String accession)
   {
-    return true;
+    // TODO: make the following a standard validator
+    return (accession==null || accession.length()<2) ? false : getAccessionValidator().search(accession);
   }
 
   /**