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Deposited research article

The GRID: The General Repository for Interaction Datasets

Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz^1,2, Chris Stark^1,2 and Mike Tyers¹

¹Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto M5G 1X5, Canada

²These authors contributed equally to this work

author email corresponding author email

Genome Biology 2002, 3:preprint0013.1-0013.5doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-preprint0013

Published:	21 November 2002

This was the first version of this article to be made available publicly. A peer-reviewed and modified version is now available in full at http://genomebiology.com/2003/4/3/R23

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genome studies

Abstract

We have developed a relational database, called the General Repository for Interaction Datasets (The GRID; http://biodata.mshri.on.ca/grid webcite) to archive and display physical, genetic and functional interactions. The GRID displays data-rich interaction tables for any protein of interest, combines literature-derived and high throughput interaction datasets, and is readily accessible via the World Wide Web. Interactions parsed in the GRID can be viewed in graphical form with a versatile visualization tool called Osprey.