STRING

Protein-protein interaction & functional association network across 12k organisms.

Composite
94.9
Experimental validation
Retrospective
Stages
Target IDDisease Modeling
Modalities
protein-general
Task types
ppinetwork-inference
Size
proteins: 67,000,000
associations: 20,000,000,000
organisms: 12,535
License
CC-BY 4.0
First release
2000
Last updated
2024-11
Official site
→ project page
Leaderboard
→ leaderboard
Dataset
→ dataset
Code / GitHub
→ repository
HuggingFace
→ HF
Paper
The STRING database in 2023 · Szklarczyk D, Kirsch R, Koutrouli M, et al. · 2023 · paper · doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000 · 2,800 citations
Flags
none
Experts
Christian von Mering
Groups
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Hosted by
ELIXIR Infrastructure
Related benchmarks
Open Targets Platform, PrimeKG

Rubric (7-criterion)

rigor
5
coverage
5
maintenance
5
adoption
5
quality
4
accessibility
5
industry_relevance
4

Notes

Workhorse for network-based target ID. Distinguish functional vs physical edges.

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