diff --git a/annotation/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/annotation/services/annotators/TairAnnotator.java b/annotation/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/annotation/services/annotators/TairAnnotator.java
index 3f72c60466714059593013083623c9ad4e609dab..60391fcae09efbec964a94e7ff3158fe92b991c0 100644
--- a/annotation/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/annotation/services/annotators/TairAnnotator.java
+++ b/annotation/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/annotation/services/annotators/TairAnnotator.java
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.regex.Matcher;
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
@@ -39,11 +37,6 @@ public class TairAnnotator extends ElementAnnotator implements IExternalService
    */
   private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(TairAnnotator.class);
 
-  /**
-   * Pattern used for finding UniProt symbol from TAIR info page .
-   */
-  private Pattern tairToUniprot = Pattern.compile("UniProtKB=([^-\"]*)");
-
   /**
    * Default constructor.
    */
@@ -92,17 +85,6 @@ public class TairAnnotator extends ElementAnnotator implements IExternalService
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Returns URL to TAIR page about TAIR entry.
-   * 
-   * @param tairId
-   *          TAIR identifier
-   * @return URL to TAIR page about the TAIR entry
-   */
-  private String getTairUrl(String tairId) {
-    return "https://arabidopsis.org/servlets/TairObject?type=locus&name=" + tairId;
-  }
-
   /**
    * Returns URL to UniProt result containing mapped UniProtIds for submitted TAIR
    * entry.
@@ -116,23 +98,6 @@ public class TairAnnotator extends ElementAnnotator implements IExternalService
         + "%29&format=list&columns=id";
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Parse TAIR webpage to find information about {@link MiriamType#UNIPROT} and
-   * returns them.
-   * 
-   * @param pageContent
-   *          tair info page
-   * @return uniprot identifier found on the page
-   */
-  private Collection<MiriamData> parseUniprot(String pageContent) {
-    Collection<MiriamData> result = new HashSet<MiriamData>();
-    Matcher m = tairToUniprot.matcher(pageContent);
-    if (m.find()) {
-      result.add(new MiriamData(MiriamType.UNIPROT, m.group(1)));
-    }
-    return result;
-  }
-
   /**
    * Parse UniProt result page which contains list of Uniprot ids mapped to
    * submitted TAIR id. The procedure obtains first {@link MiriamType#UNIPROT} and
@@ -174,10 +139,8 @@ public class TairAnnotator extends ElementAnnotator implements IExternalService
     }
 
     try {
-      // String accessUrl = getTairUrl(tair.getResource());
       String accessUrl = getUniProtUrl(tair.getResource());
       String pageContent = getWebPageContent(accessUrl);
-      // Collection<MiriamData> collection = parseUniprot(pageContent);
       return parseUniprotUniprot(pageContent);
     } catch (WrongResponseCodeIOException exception) {
       logger.warn("Wrong reponse code when accessing tair data with id: " + tair.getResource());