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
associations: 20,000,000,000
organisms: 12,535
License
CC-BY 4.0
First release
2000
Last updated
2024-11
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Code / GitHub
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HuggingFace
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Paper
The STRING database in 2023 · Szklarczyk D, Kirsch R, Koutrouli M, et al. · 2023 · paper · doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000 · 2,800 citations
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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.