The management teams of five major molecular interaction databases have signed an agreement to share curation and to exchange completed records in order to provide researchers with a network of stable, synchronised, and freely accessible databases. The activity will be managed through a consortium called the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx). IMEx will also act as a conduit for jointly capturing all published molecular interaction data - in a manner similar to the global collaborations for protein and DNA sequences. Databases participating in the consortium as of August 2005 are: [1] BIND, run by the Blueprint Initiative (in Singapore and Canada); [2] DIP, from the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics, Los Angeles, US; [3] IntAct, from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK; [4] MINT, run by the University of Rome, Italy; and [5] MPact, at MIPS/Institute for Bioinformatics in Munich, Germany. More are expected to join the consortium soon....Data exchange is expected to start in 2006.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/03/2005 10:58:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
