STRING

Protein-protein interaction & functional association network across 12k organisms.

Composite score: 94.9

Rubric (1–5 per criterion)

rigor

5/5

coverage

5/5

maintenance

5/5

adoption

5/5

quality

4/5

accessibility

5/5

industry_relevance

4/5

Metadata

Stages

Target IDDisease Modeling

Modalities

protein-general

Task types

ppinetwork-inference

License

CC-BY 4.0

First release

2000

Last updated

2024-11

Flags

none

Size & scope

proteins: 67000000
associations: 20000000000
organisms: 12535

Primary paper

Title

The STRING database in 2023

Authors

Szklarczyk D, Kirsch R, Koutrouli M, et al.

Year

2023

DOI / arXiv

10.1093/nar/gkac1000

Citations

2800

Hosted by (initiatives)

ELIXIR Infrastructure

Experts (primary authors / maintainers)

Christian von Mering

Groups (host labs / companies / consortia)

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Related benchmarks

Notes (honest caveats)

Workhorse for network-based target ID. Distinguish functional vs physical edges.