STRING: A database of predicted functional associations between proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 258-261

  von Mering, Christian ^a,b   Huynen, Martijn ^c   Jaeggi, Daniel ^a,b   Schmidt, Steffen ^a,b   Bork, Peer ^a,b   Snel, Berend ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENOME; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PROTEINS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037250152     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg034     Document Type: Review

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