UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
Department of Informatics
International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology(ISMB) Stockholm, Sweden:
(June 27 – July 02, 2009) Poster:E29
Research Report No:400
Sabry Razick Ian M Donaldson
ISBN: 82-7368-361-3
September 2010
iRefIndex: Interaction Reference Index
Sabry Razick1,2 and Ian M Donaldson 1,3
1The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1125 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
2 Biomedical Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
3 Department for Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1041 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
iRefIndex provides an index of protein interactions available in a number of primary interaction databases. This index allows the user to search for a protein and retrieve a nonredundant list of interactors for that protein.
This system uses the Redundant Object Group (ROG) and Redundant Interaction Group (RIG) identifier to group proteins and interactions into redundant groups. This method allows users to integrate their own data with the iRefIndex in a way that ensures proteins with the exact same sequence and NCBI taxonomy identifier will be represented only once.
iRefIndex has consolidated 10 different interaction databases using this method and provides a
number of methods to access these data. This includes downloading as PSIMI compliant tabdelimited file and from the iRefScape plugin for (http://www.cytoscape.org/), PSICQUIC web services and the iRefWeb(http://wodaklab.org/iRefWeb/).
More details about iRefIndex and links available at: http://irefindex.uio.no/wiki/iRefIndex
This poster was published in the ISMB (International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) conference 2009 (http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2009/index.php).
