The STRING database in 2017: Quality-controlled protein-protein association networks, made broadly accessible

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue D1, 2017, Pages D362-D368

  Szklarczyk, Damian ^a   Morris, John H ^b   Cook, Helen ^c   Kuhn, Michael ^d   Wyder, Stefan ^a   Simonovic, Milan ^a   Santos, Alberto ^c   Doncheva, Nadezhda T ^c   Roth, Alexander ^a   Bork, Peer ^d,e,f,g   Jensen, Lars J ^c   Von Mering, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; ORTHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WEB BROWSER;

PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 85021857514     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw937     Document Type: Article

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