iRefIndex Release Notes

This document attempts to describe new features and changes in each released version of iRefIndex.

iRefIndex 13.0

December 2013

• MINT records are now distributed by IntAct.

• All records created by the MINT database are now distributed from the IntAct web-site and FTP site. All MINT interaction records have been assigned an EBI identifier as the record's primary identifier. The original MINT record identifier is preserved as a secondary identifier in the records distributed by IntAct. However, only the EBI identifier is provided in iRefIndex and the source is always listed as IntAct.

• See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes and issues related to MITAB output.

(README and Download, Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 12.0

June 2013

• Release 12 corrects the appearance of RefSeq chromosome identifiers that first appeared in release 10 and were used (erroneously) to refer to protein interactors.

• As of November 30th, 2011, the MINT database produced its last release in PSI-XML format (ftp://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/pub/release/psi/) and now only releases data in PSI-MITAB format (ftp://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/pub/release/mitab26/). The most recent MINT release at the time of writing was from May 20th, 2013. This means that many MINT records are missing from iRefIndex. A new parser will be written to accomodate the PSI-MITAB MINT format for a future release of iRefIndex.

• See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes and issues related to MITAB output.

Thanks to Paul Boddie for bug fixes.

(Links to archived data)

iRefIndex 11.0

May 2013

• Release 11 corrects the appearance of deprecated Entrez Gene Ids found in version 10. This build also includes a module to update iRefWeb.

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

Thanks Andrei Turinsky, Lilian Hanna and Paul Boddie for testing and bug fixes.

README_MITAB2.6_for_iRefIndex

(README and Download, Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 10.0

March 2013

• Release 10 was built using a pipeline rewritten by Paul Boddie to simplify the build process and reduce build time

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

Thanks to Aleksandar Stojmirovic, Andrei Turinsky and Thomas Schmitt for early testing.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 9.0

November 2011

• RIGIDs in previous releases of iRefIndex were incorrectly computed. Although the properties of such RIGIDs were not compromised - distinct RIGIDs should still have referred to distinct interactions - each RIGID made use of substantially less information from its components. RIGIDs in this release should now be computed correctly. (Internal link)
• Many proteins previously assigned the 4932 taxonomy identifier have been recategorised as having taxonomy identifier 559292. Thus, for convenience, an additional 559292 file is produced alongside the existing (but substantially smaller) 4932 file to hold interactions involving proteins associated with both taxons. (Internal link)

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

New data sources: InnateDB, MatrixDB, MPI-LIT, MPI-IMEX

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 8.0

January 2011

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 7.0

May 2010

• This is the first release to use the PSI-MITAB2.6 format.

See the MITAB format description (and MITAB 2.5 format description) for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

New sources: BIND Translation

Removed sources: I2D

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 6.1

February 2010

• This release fixed a problem in iRefIndex 6.0 related to MPPI interactions spuriously being provided as evidence.

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 6.0

October 2009

• The "arbitrary" method for choosing a protein interactor when the identifier provided by the source database could be interpreted as one of multiple different proteins has been changed to consult certain sequence databases in order.

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 5.1

August 2009

• This release fixed errors in iRefIndex 5.0.

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 5.0

July 2009

New sources: I2D

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 4.0

June 2009

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 3.0

March 2009

New sources: CORUM

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 2.0

October 2008

New sources: BIND, BioGRID, DIP, HPRD, IntAct, MINT, MPACT, MPPI, OPHID

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

(Sources, Statistics)

iRefIndex 1.1

July 2008

• The method used to select the largest SEGUID was modified, thus changing some ROG identifiers.
• The method used for RIGID calculation was also changed from previously generated data.
• The iRefIndex publication describes the methods used in this release.

See the MITAB format description for a complete list of changes related to MITAB output.

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