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      The IntAct molecular interaction database in 2010

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          IntAct is an open-source, open data molecular interaction database and toolkit. Data is abstracted from the literature or from direct data depositions by expert curators following a deep annotation model providing a high level of detail. As of September 2009, IntAct contains over 200.000 curated binary interaction evidences. In response to the growing data volume and user requests, IntAct now provides a two-tiered view of the interaction data. The search interface allows the user to iteratively develop complex queries, exploiting the detailed annotation with hierarchical controlled vocabularies. Results are provided at any stage in a simplified, tabular view. Specialized views then allows ‘zooming in’ on the full annotation of interactions, interactors and their properties. IntAct source code and data are freely available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact.

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                Journal
                Nucleic Acids Res
                Nucleic Acids Res
                nar
                nar
                Nucleic Acids Research
                Oxford University Press
                0305-1048
                1362-4962
                January 2010
                22 October 2009
                22 October 2009
                : 38
                : Database issue , Database issue
                : D525-D531
                Affiliations
                1EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK, 2Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Geneva, Switzerland and 3Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Australia
                Author notes
                *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1223 49 4671; Fax: +44 1223 49 4468; Email: hhe@ 123456ebi.ac.uk
                Article
                gkp878
                10.1093/nar/gkp878
                2808934
                19850723
                8ce531de-1543-48b5-b9ba-b0e496f4a134
                © The Author(s) 2009. Published by Oxford University Press.

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                : 11 September 2009
                : 1 October 2009
                : 2 October 2009
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