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Molecular Interaction Working Group Charter

Submitted: 2025-04-03
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1.Administrative Section

Status (New/Update): Update

Group Name:
HUPO PSI Molecular Interaction Working Group (PSI-MI WG)

Chair (with affiliation and current email address):
Luana Licata (luana.licata@gmail.com)

Co-Chairs (1 or 2) (with affiliation and current email address):
Sylvie Ricard-Blum (sylvie.ricard-blum@univ-lyon1.fr)
Kalpana Panneerselvam (kalpanap@ebi.ac.uk)

Secretary:

Other officers (optional) (with affiliation and current email address):
Editor(s): Sylvie Ricard-Blum (sylvie.ricard-blum@univ-lyon1.fr)
Minimal Reporting Requirements Coordinator(s): Kalpana Panneerselvam (kalpanap@ebi.ac.uk)
Ontology Coordinator(s): Kalpana Panneerselvam (kalpanap@ebi.ac.uk), Juan Jose Medina Reyes (jmedina@ebi.ac.uk)
Web site Maintainer(s): Sucharitha Balu (sbalu@ebi.ac.uk)

Mailing list
psi-mi@ebi.ac.uk

2.Description and objectives

Focus and Purpose

The PSI-MI working group is composed of academic, government, and industry researchers, software developers and database curators and managers. The main goals of the PSI-MI working group are to:

      • define community data formats and associated controlled vocabulary terms, facilitating data exchange and archiving of molecular interaction data. Maintain data formats for the exchange of molecular interaction data, updating these when necessary in response to new data types

      • Maintain the minimum information guidelines (MIMIx) for the exchange of molecular interaction data, updating these when necessary in response to new data types

      • Maintain the PSI-MI controlled vocabularies updating these when necessary in response to new  use cases

      • Maintain the PSICQUIC webservice

      • Support the work of interaction databases in making molecular interaction data publicly available

     

    Current projects of the PSI-MI working group are:

      1. Publication/implementation of FeatureTAB
      2. Development of standards for macromolecular complex curation/prediction 
      3. Enhancement of existing meta-data
      4. Coordination of systematic curation/prediction of human interactome
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      Goals/Milestones

      Goal 1. Development of a community agreed standardisation for the representation of predicted/curated macromolecular complexes to enable data exchange/integration

      Milestone 1: Publication of complex curation/prediction guidelines

      Goal 2. Extend IMEx curated content made available through FeatureTAB

      Milestone 2. Put FeatureTab through DocProc

      Milestone 3. Release PTM, binding site data in FeatureTab

      Goal 3. Coordination of systematic curation/prediction of human interactome
                    and Ongoing improvement of annotation meta-data

      Milestone 4. Release of annotation meta-data

       

      Website:

      http://www.psidev.info/groups/molecular-interactions