diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 909a7cf..923f424 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: proteus
 Type: Package
 Title: Downstream analysis of the MaxQuant output
-Version: 0.2.15
+Version: 0.2.16
 Depends: R (>= 3.4)
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Marek", "Gierlinski", email="M.Gierlinski@dundee.ac.uk", role=c("aut", "cre")),
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ URL: https://github.com/bartongroup/Proteus
 License: GPL-2
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
-RoxygenNote: 7.1.2
+RoxygenNote: 7.2.1
 Imports:
     dplyr,
     reshape2,
diff --git a/R/uniprot.R b/R/uniprot.R
index 11d59f1..4efb479 100644
--- a/R/uniprot.R
+++ b/R/uniprot.R
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ fetchFromUniProt <- function(unis, columns=c("genes", "protein names"),
     stop("No valid UniProt accession numbers found.")
   }
 
-  url <- "http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/"
+  url <- "http://legacy.uniprot.org/uniprot/"
 
   # split id list into batches of maximum size of batchsize
   batches <- split(unis, ceiling(seq_along(unis) / batchsize))