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. 2014 Jan;42(Database issue):D358-63.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt1115. Epub 2013 Nov 13.

The MIntAct project--IntAct as a common curation platform for 11 molecular interaction databases

Sandra Orchard  1 , Mais Ammari, Bruno Aranda, Lionel Breuza, Leonardo Briganti, Fiona Broackes-Carter, Nancy H Campbell, Gayatri Chavali, Carol Chen, Noemi del-Toro, Margaret Duesbury, Marine Dumousseau, Eugenia Galeota, Ursula Hinz, Marta Iannuccelli, Sruthi Jagannathan, Rafael Jimenez, Jyoti Khadake, Astrid Lagreid, Luana Licata, Ruth C Lovering, Birgit Meldal, Anna N Melidoni, Mila Milagros, Daniele Peluso, Livia Perfetto, Pablo Porras, Arathi Raghunath, Sylvie Ricard-Blum, Bernd Roechert, Andre Stutz, Michael Tognolli, Kim van Roey, Gianni Cesareni, Henning Hermjakob
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The MIntAct project--IntAct as a common curation platform for 11 molecular interaction databases

Sandra Orchard et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jan.

Abstract

IntAct (freely available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact) is an open-source, open data molecular interaction database populated by data either curated from the literature or from direct data depositions. IntAct has developed a sophisticated web-based curation tool, capable of supporting both IMEx- and MIMIx-level curation. This tool is now utilized by multiple additional curation teams, all of whom annotate data directly into the IntAct database. Members of the IntAct team supply appropriate levels of training, perform quality control on entries and take responsibility for long-term data maintenance. Recently, the MINT and IntAct databases decided to merge their separate efforts to make optimal use of limited developer resources and maximize the curation output. All data manually curated by the MINT curators have been moved into the IntAct database at EMBL-EBI and are merged with the existing IntAct dataset. Both IntAct and MINT are active contributors to the IMEx consortium (http://www.imexconsortium.org).

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Figure 1.
The web-based IntAct curation environment is used by currently 11 independent organizations, most of which re-export the data and present it through their own web interfaces.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Growth of the IntAct database.
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