The MIntAct project—IntAct as a common curation platform for 11 molecular interaction databases
Nucleic Acids ResearchPublished 13 November 2013Open access
Sandra Orchard, Mais Ammari, Bruno Aranda, Lionel Breuza, Leonardo Briganti, Fiona Broackes-Carter
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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.
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This FAIRsharing record describes: IntAct provides a freely available, open source database system and analysis tools for protein interaction data. All interactions are derived from literature curation or direct user submissions and are freely available.
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Computer ScienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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