title: STITCH 4: integration of protein-chemical interactions with user data.
abstract: STITCH is a database of protein-chemical interactions that integrates many sources of experimental and manually curated evidence with text-mining information and interaction predictions. Available at http://stitch.embl.de, the resulting interaction network includes 390 000 chemicals and 3.6 million proteins from 1133 organisms. Compared with the previous version, the number of high-confidence protein-chemical interactions in human has increased by 45%, to 367 000. In this version, we added features for users to upload their own data to STITCH in the form of internal identifiers, chemical structures or quantitative data. For example, a user can now upload a spreadsheet with screening hits to easily check which interactions are already known. To increase the coverage of STITCH, we expanded the text mining to include full-text articles and added a prediction method based on chemical structures. We further changed our scheme for transferring interactions between species to rely on orthology rather than protein similarity. This improves the performance within protein families, where scores are now transferred only to orthologous proteins, but not to paralogous proteins. STITCH can be accessed with a web-interface, an API and downloadable files.
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Center, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany and Max-Delbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13092 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuhn
authors.forename: Damian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Szklarczyk
authors.forename: Sune
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pletscher-Frankild
authors.forename: Thomas H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Blicher
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: von Mering
authors.forename: Lars J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Peer
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bork
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057225:Data Mining; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D051379:Mice; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D018511:Systems Integration
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D011506:Proteins