The STRING database

Lars Juhl Jensen

EMBL Heidelberg

data integration

Jensen et al., Drug Discovery Today: Targets, 2004

functional interactions

Bork et al., Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2005

373 proteomes

Genome Reviews

RefSeq

Ensembl

model organism databases

genomic context methods

gene fusion

gene neighborhood

phylogenetic profiles

Cell

Cellulosomes

Cellulose

automation

scoring scheme

correct interactions

wrong associations

gene fusion

sequence similarity

gene neighborhood

sum of intergenic distances

phylogenetic profiles

SVDSingular Value Decomposition

Euclidian distance

raw quality scores

not comparable

sequence similarity

sum of intergenic distances

Euclidian distance

benchmarking

calibrate vs. gold standard

raw quality scores

probabilistic scores

curated knowledge

KEGGKyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes

Reactome

MIPSMunich Information center

for Protein Sequences

STKESignal Transduction Knowledge Environment

primary experimental data

many sources

many parsers

physical protein interactions

BINDBiomolecular Interaction Network Database

GRIDGeneral Repository for Interaction Datasets

MINTMolecular Interactions Database

DIPDatabase of Interacting Proteins

HPRDHuman Protein Reference Database

merge data by publication

topology-based scores

von Mering et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2005

co-expression

GEOGene Expression Omnibus

correlation coefficient

literature mining

different gene identifiers

synonyms lists

MEDLINE

SGDSaccharomyces Genome Database

The Interactive Fly

OMIMOnline Mendelian Inheritance in Man

co-mentioning

NLPNatural Language Processing

Gene and protein namesCue words for entity recognitionVerbs for relation extraction

[nxgene The GAL4 gene]

[nxexpr The expression of [nxgene the cytochrome genes [nxpg CYC1 and CYC7]]]is controlled by[nxpg HAP1]

calibrate vs. gold standard

combine all evidence

spread over many species

transfer by orthology

von Mering et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2005

two modes

orthologous groups

von Mering et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2005

fuzzy orthology

von Mering et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2005

Bayesian scoring scheme

Bork et al., Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2005

Acknowledgments

The STRING team (EMBL)– Christian von Mering

– Berend Snel

– Martijn Huynen

– Sean Hooper

– Samuel Chaffron

– Julien Lagarde

– Mathilde Foglierini

– Peer Bork

Literature mining project(EML Research)– Jasmin Saric

– Rossitza Ouzounova

– Isabel Rojas