Protein interaction data curation: the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) consortium

Abstract

The International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) consortium is an international collaboration between major public interaction data providers to share literature-curation efforts and make a nonredundant set of protein interactions available in a single search interface on a common website (http://www.imexconsortium.org/). Common curation rules have been developed, and a central registry is used to manage the selection of articles to enter into the dataset. We discuss the advantages of such a service to the user, our quality-control measures and our data-distribution practices.

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Affiliated Institutions

• European Bioinformatics Institute GB
• University of Rome Tor Vergata IT
• SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics CH
• J. Craig Venter Institute US
• University of California, Los Angeles US
• Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology DE
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research CA
• University Health Network CA
• Helmholtz Zentrum München DE
• Institut de Biologie et de Chimie des Protéines FR
• Wellcome Trust GB
• University of British Columbia CA
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 FR
• Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority IE
• Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology GB
• Simon Fraser University CA
• University of Edinburgh GB

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