Abstract
Many fundamental processes involve protein-protein interactions. Recent advances in technology make it possible to perform large-scale, genome-wide interaction mapping experiments that result in an always increasing amount of data. Protein-protein interaction databases are thus becoming a major resource for investigating biological networks and pathways. In this chapter we describe the Molecular INTeraction database (MINT). The MINT database aims at storing, in a structured format, information about protein-protein interactions (PPIs) by extracting experimental details from work published in peer-reviewed journals.
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Chatr-aryamontri, A., Zanzoni, A., Ceol, A., Cesareni, G. (2008). Searching the Protein Interaction Space Through the MINT Database. In: Thompson, J.D., Ueffing, M., Schaeffer-Reiss, C. (eds) Functional Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 484. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-398-1_20
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