Biology

Interface (matter)

The Internet

Epistemology

World Wide Web

Philosophy

Ontology

Download

Computer science

Computational biology

Web browser

Gibbs isotherm

Biochemistry

Pulmonary surfactant

Database

Data curation

Nucleic Acids Research

The Molecular INTeraction Database (MINT, http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/) is a public repository for protein–protein interactions (PPI) reported in peer-reviewed journals. The database grows steadily over the years and at September 2011 contains approximately 235 000 binary interactions captured from over 4750 publications. The web interface allows the users to search, visualize and download interactions data. MINT is one of the members of the International Molecular Exchange consortium (IMEx) and adopts the Molecular Interaction Ontology of the Proteomics Standard Initiative (PSI-MI) standards for curation and data exchange. MINT data are freely accessible and downloadable at http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/download.do. We report here the growth of the database, the major changes in curation policy and a new algorithm to assign a confidence to each interaction.

MINT, the molecular interaction database: 2012 update