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= openPIP: The Open Source Protein Interactions Platform =
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== Brief Description ==
The Open Source Protein Interactions Platform (openPIP) is an open source software package for hosting protein-protein interaction (PPI) data based on the [[https://code.google.com/archive/p/psimi/wikis/PsimiTab27Format.wiki|PSI-MI-TAB format]]. openPIP provides PPI database and a customizable web interface that enables searching and visualizing the interactions as well as downloading the search results in different formats. The whole system is a ready-to-use virtual machine that can be imported to VMware.
A live version of openPIP is available at [[http://beta.baderlab.org/|this link]].
== openPIP Features ==
* Data deposition is the PSI-MI-TAB format, the PPIs standard format.
* Hasel-free customization, change the look and contents for the admin tool, no coding required.
* Comprehensive search options.
* Search results visualization using [[http://js.cytoscape.org/|Cytoscap.JS]]
* Downloading search results in five different formats including TSV, PSI-MI-TAB, PNG and JPG.
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