{"id":3459,"date":"2015-03-02T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:00:36","slug":"1502-binary-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/1502-binary-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"500,000 binary interactions&#8230; and growing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than half a million experimentally determined protein interactions are freely available in EMBL-EBI\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/intact\">IntAct database<\/a>, providing a means to build and visualise the network of protein interactions at play in living things. This public data resource continues to grow thanks to experimental data submitted directly by researchers, and is bolstered by data captured from the <a href=\"http:\/\/europepmc.org\">scientific literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Capturing protein interactions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Biological processes are governed by the act of molecules communicating through physical contact. Such contact could be anything from transient interactions, for example those involved in synapse signalling, to the well-orchestrated organisation of protein complexes. It would be impossible to study the biology of a protein without looking at the molecules with which it binds \u2013 or to understand how a cell works without knowing which protein networks drive and regulate its myriad processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IntAct, the public database of molecular interactions, collects experimental evidence of proteins interacting with other proteins, of transcription factors associating with gene-promoter regions, and of biologically active small molecules binding to their target. It also offers an increasing number of RNA interactions, referencing the new <a href=\"http:\/\/rnacentral.org\">RNAcentral<\/a> resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll of these datasets are checked carefully by our biocurators before each release of IntAct,\u201d explains Sandra Orchard, IntAct Project Leader at EMBL-EBI. \u201cThis means that users can be confident that they are accessing the highest-quality information. Also, they can download the datasets in community-standard formats, so it\u2019s easier to analyse the data in different visualisation and analytical platforms. For example, you can build an interaction network specific to your work using the IntAct search tools, and then integrate it with other data types in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cytoscape.org\/\">Cytoscape<\/a>, a popular visualisation program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A collaborative resource<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>IntAct is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imexconsortium.org\/\">IMEx Consortium<\/a>, a partnership of several interaction databases that work together to provide a non-redundant set of consistently annotated protein interaction data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>IntAct is a unique resource for systems biology \u2013 there is really nothing else like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaborations between IMEx members have led to substantial growth of public interaction resources. For example, a detailed representation of the recently published dataset, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/europepmc.org\/abstract\/med\/25416956\">A proteome-scale map of the human interactome network<\/a>\u2019, has been captured by collaborators in EMBL-EBI\u2019s IntAct team and the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (<a href=\"http:\/\/ccsb.dfci.harvard.edu\/web\/www\/ccsb\/\">CCSB<\/a>) at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. This dataset significantly increases the coverage of the network of human protein interactions by the IntAct database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIntAct is a unique resource for systems biology \u2013 there is really nothing else like it. This milestone for the project represents a massive effort, not just for the people curating and hosting the data at EMBL-EBI but the many experimentalists who have worked so hard to establish the exact nature of thousands of molecular interactions,\u201d says CCSB Director Marc Vidal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, collaborators at IntAct and the MINT database at the University of Rome, Italy produced a single merged dataset, which continues to grow thanks to curators in many groups throughout the world. These include the UniProt Consortium, MatrixDB, I2D, InnateDB, MBInfo, the UCL Cardiovascular Gene Annotation, AgBase, Molecular Connections and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Future challenges<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Advances in cell biology are leading to profound changes in the way we look at molecular interactions, and to keep up we need to find more sophisticated ways of representing the network of interactions that direct and modulate cellular processes. The IntAct model enables curators to capture information such as the effects of mutations or protein modifications on interaction networks, which is a good starting point. But this information needs to be more fully utilised to help explain, for example, the effects of single amino acid variants on disease pathology. Emerging techniques for studying interactions are generating increasing amounts of biological information, which must be systematically captured if it is to be of use.Notes for editors<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\"\/>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Note for editors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About IntAct<\/strong><br \/>Produced at EMBL-EBI, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk.intact\">IntAct<\/a> is a freely available, open-source database of molecular interactions that offers a suite of analysis tools. The interactions are derived from literature curation and direct user submissions. IntAct is an international effort, with contributors at MINT (University of Rome), UniProt (EMBL-EBI and the SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), MatrixDB (University of Lyon), I2D (University of Toronto), InnateDB (Collaborators in Australia, Canada and Ireland), MBInfo (National University of Singapore), the Functional Gene Annotation group at University College London, AgBase Host-Pathogen Interaction Database (Mississippi State University), Molecular Connections Ltd. (India) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.&nbsp;IntAct is funded by the Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences Research Council (MIDAS grant BB\/L024179\/1), the US National Heart, Lunch and Blood Institute (Proteomics Center Award HHSN268201000035C), the European Commission (Affinomics grant FP7-241481) and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson&#8217;s Research (LRRK2 Biology LEAPS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About IMEx<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imexconsortium.org\/\">The IMEx Consortium<\/a> is a network of major public-domain databases that work together to provide a non-redundant set of expertly curated protein\u2013protein interaction data from organisms across the taxonomic space. Members include IntAct at EMBL-EBI, MINT, DIP (University of California Los Angeles), UniProt, MatrixDB, I2D, InnateDB, MBInfo, the UCL Functional Gene Annotation group and Molecular Connections Ltd. IMEx is funded by the Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences Research Council (MIDAS grant BB\/L024179\/1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/about\/news\/press-releases\/500000-interactions-in-IntAct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/about\/news\/press-releases\/500000-interactions-in-IntAct\">EMBL-EBI News.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building and visualising protein-interaction networks is easier and more accurate thanks to IntAct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,782,158,156],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-3459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lab-matters","tag-bioinformatics","tag-database","tag-imex","tag-molecular-interaction"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>Building and visualising protein-interaction networks is easier and more accurate thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/intact\">IntAct<\/a>, a public database of 500,000 molecular interactions.<\/p>\n","related_links":[{"link_description":"IntAct database of molecular interactions","link_url":"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/intact"},{"link_description":"IMEx consortium","link_url":"http:\/\/www.imexconsortium.org\/"},{"link_description":"Center for Cancer Systems Biology","link_url":"http:\/\/ccsb.dfci.harvard.edu\/web\/www\/ccsb\/"}],"article_sources":false,"vf_locked":false,"featured":false,"color":"#007B53"},"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IntAct: 500,000 interactions and growing | EMBL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Building and visualising protein-interaction networks is easier and more accurate thanks to IntAct, a public database of 500,000 molecular interactions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/1502-binary-interactions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IntAct: 500,000 interactions and growing | EMBL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Building and visualising protein-interaction networks is easier and more accurate thanks to IntAct, a public database of 500,000 molecular interactions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/1502-binary-interactions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EMBL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/embl.org\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"www.facebook.com\/EMBLEBI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-02T13:16:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-13T10:00:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Interactions_2015_EMBL-e1425484118771.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"424\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mary Todd Bergman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@EMBLEBI\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@embl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mary Todd Bergman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/1502-binary-interactions\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/1502-binary-interactions\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mary Todd Bergman\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/052a43af2beb3860bffa67c0f0474875\"},\"headline\":\"500,000 binary interactions&#8230; 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