Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on June 5, 2009
Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Web Server issue):W122-W128; doi:10.1093/nar/gkp438
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. suppl_2 W122-W128
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DASMIweb: online integration, analysis and assessment of distributed protein interaction data
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Campus E1.4, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Received February 28, 2009. Revised April 25, 2009. Accepted May 11, 2009.
In recent years, we have witnessed a substantial increase of the amount of available protein interaction data. However, most data are currently not readily accessible to the biologist at a single site, but scattered over multiple online repositories. Therefore, we have developed the DASMIweb server that affords the integration, analysis and qualitative assessment of distributed sources of interaction data in a dynamic fashion. Since DASMIweb allows for querying many different resources of protein and domain interactions simultaneously, it serves as an important starting point for interactome studies and assists the user in finding publicly accessible interaction data with minimal effort. The pool of queried resources is fully configurable and supports the inclusion of own interaction data or confidence scores. In particular, DASMIweb integrates confidence measures like functional similarity scores to assess individual interactions. The retrieved results can be exported in different file formats like MITAB or SIF. DASMIweb is freely available at http://www.dasmiweb.de.