Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In molecular biology, STRING is a database and web resource of known and predicted protein-protein interactions. The STRING database contains information from numerous sources, including experimental data, computational prediction methods and public text collections. It is freely a ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In molecular biology, STRING is a database and web resource of known and predicted protein-protein interactions. The STRING database contains information from numerous sources, including experimental data, computational prediction methods and public text collections. It is freely accessible and it is regularly updated. The latest version 9.0 contains information on about 5.2 millions proteins from 1133 species. STRING has been developed by a consortium of academic institutions including CPR, EMBL, KU, SIB, TUD and UZH. Protein-protein interaction networks are an important ingredient for the system-level understanding of cellular processes. Such networks can be used for filtering and assessing functional genomics data and for providing an intuitive platform for annotating structural, functional and evolutionary properties of proteins.