Resource Report

URL: http://www.imexconsortium.org/

Proper Citation: IMEx - The International Molecular Exchange Consortium (RRID:SCR_002805)

Description: Interaction database from international collaboration between major public interaction data providers who share curation effort and develop set of curation rules when capturing data from both directly deposited interaction data or from publications in peer reviewed journals. Performs complete curation of all protein-protein interactions experimentally demonstrated within publication and makes them available in single search interface on common website. Provides data in standards compliant download formats. IMEx partners produce their own separate resources, which range from all encompassing molecular interaction databases, such as are maintained by IntAct, MINT and DIP, organism-centric resources such as BioGrid or MPIDB or biological domain centric, such as MatrixDB. They have committed to making records available, via PSICQUIC webservice, which have been curated to IMEx rules and are available to users as single, non-redundant set of curated publications which can be searched at the IMEx website. Data is made available in standards-compliant tab-deliminated and XML formats, enabling to visualize data using wide range of tools. Consortium is open to participation of additional partners and encourages deposition of data, prior to publication, and will supply unique accession numbers which may be referenced within final article. Submitters may send their data directly to any of member databases using variety of formats, but should conform to guidelines as to minimum information required to describe data.

Abbreviations: IMEx

Synonyms: The International Molecular Exchange Consortium, International Molecular Exchange Consortium

Resource Type: consortium, community building portal, data or information resource, organization portal, storage service resource, data repository, portal, service resource, database

Defining Citation: PMID:22453911, PMID:17893861

Keywords: protein-protein interaction, nonredundant, protein interaction, interaction, proteomics, metadata standard, short course, molecular interaction, bio.tools, FASEB list