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Literature-curated protein interaction datasets

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High-quality datasets are needed to understand how global and local properties of protein-protein interaction, or 'interactome', networks relate to biological mechanisms, and to guide research on individual proteins. In an evaluation of existing curation of protein interaction experiments reported in the literature, we found that curation can be error-prone and possibly of lower quality than commonly assumed.

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Figure 1: Distribution of the number of published manuscripts supporting each interaction.
Figure 2: Distribution of the publications in literature-curated datasets by the number of interactions reported in the publication.
Figure 3: Overlaps of reported curation for yeast PPIs.
Figure 4: Summary of recuration results.

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This work was supported by US National Human Genome Research Institute grants R01 HG001715 to M.V. and F.P.R., P50 HG004233 to M.V. and R01 HG003224 to F.P.R. by funds from the W.M. Keck Foundation to M.V. by an award (DBI-0703905) from the National Science Foundation to M.V., J.R.E. and D.E.H. and by Institute Sponsored Research funds from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Strategic Initiative to M.V. and CCSB. is a Chercheur Qualifié Honoraire from the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS, French Community of Belgium). We thank all members of CCSB for constructive discussions.

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