The International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx)

 

Mission statement

The IMEx consortium is a group of major public interaction data providers sharing curation effort and exchanging completed records on molecular interaction data, similar to successful global collaborations for protein and DNA sequences and for macromolecular structures.

 

 

News and future events
  • The next IMEx meeting is scheduled to be held in conjunction with the Interactome Networks conference 2007, August 29, 2007, in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
  • An IMEx consortium meeting was held in conjunction with the PSI spring meeting April 27-28, 2007, in Lyon, France.

 

 

IMEx partners

IMEx defines three types of membership:

  • Archival: IMEx partner commits to producing relevant numbers of records curated to IMEx standard, and commits to importing all IMEx records provided by IMEx partners, to provide a full dataset of globally available IMEx data.
  • Topical: IMEx partner commits to producing relevant numbers of records curated to IMEx standard, but does not commit to importing all available IMEx records. This is suitable e.g. for a model organism database only interested in relevant IMEx records.
  • Observer: Prospective future IMEx consortium member.

 

IMEx partners:

 

 

The IMEx consortium is open to the participation of additional partners.

 

 

Exchange format

IMEx partners will exchange their data in the form of XML files, following the PSI MI standard for molecular interactions. The current version is 2.5.

 

 

Data Submission

IMEx partners strongly encourage and accept submissions of molecular interaction datasets to any of the IMEx partner databases. For detailed data deposition instructions please refer to the deposition page.

 

 

Curation synchronisation

IMEx partners aim to synchronise their curation and exchange the resulting records, thus avoiding redundant efforts. Currently the following journals are curated in work-sharing mode. Record exchange implementation is currently in progress.

 

 

Curation has been aligned to a common standard, as detailed in the curation manual of the individual databases and summarised in the joint curation manual.

 

Previous events

 

  • IMEx consortium meeting Washington, September 2006
  • IMEx consortium meeting Los Angeles, April 2006
  • IMEx consortium meeting Munich, August 2005
  • IMEx consortium meeting Toronto, March 2005
  • IMEx meeting Rome, November 2004

 

Publications

Contact

Please submit any questions, comments, etc. to imex-help@lists.sf.net .

Imex news are disseminated via the low-traffic list imex-announce@lists.sf.net . 

 

Release Policy

All IMEx partners agree to release all suitable molecular interaction records created on or after 31/3/2006 by curation of direct submissions or publications in peer reviewed journals as IMEx records. “Suitable” means that curation and data exchange guidelines for the particular record type have already been developed in the IMEx consortium.

 

Licence

This license replaces any previously posted copyright notice.

 

The International Molecular Interaction Exchange (IMEx) Consortium (http://imex.sf.net) is a collaboration between the BIND, DIP, MPACT(MIPS), MINT and IntAct databases. The IMEx Consortium applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/). This means that you are free to copy, distribute, display and make commercial use of all IMEx records from the above databases provided appropriate credit is given. Appropriate credit should be given in the form of a URL linking the record to its original instance at the database which has created it.

 

Disclaimer

This diclaimer replaces any previously posted disclaimers.

 

IMEx databases are designed to provide the scientific community with sources of current and comprehensive information. Therefore, the IMEx Consortium places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the data contained herein other than what is described in the Creative Commons Attribution license. However, some data may be subject to patent, additional copyright, or other intellectual property rights by the original submitters. The institutions managing IMEx make no representation that IMEx resources will not infringe any patent or other proprietary right. The IMEx Consortium does not assess the validity of such claims and therefore cannot provide comment or unrestricted permission concerning the use, copying or distribution of the information contained in the IMEx databases.

 

IMEx resources are provided without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. This includes but is not limited to merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The information, software, products, and services published by the IMEx Consortium may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Improvements, changes, and additions may be made at any time.

 

The database releases, information, and resources of IMEx are provided on an "as is" basis. The institutions and individuals participating in IMEx cannot be held liable to any party for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits, arising from the use of the archived materials. IMEx does not endorse or recommend any commercial products, processes, or services. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in IMEx by the authors/contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the IMEx members.