DIMA is a Domain Interaction MAp and aims at becoming a comprehensive resource for functional and physical interactions among conserved protein-domains. The scope of the resource comprises both experimental data and computational predictions. Several methods and datasets have been integrated, already and inclusion of others is under way.
DIMA is hosted at MIPS aka Institute for Bioinformatics at GSF – National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany. Developement was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Genome oriented Bioinformatics at the Technische Universität München, Germany.
We do not impose restrictions on the use of this resource or the data generated by it. You may freely use the results for both academic and commercial purposes, as long as you cite the source properly. However, some of the data sources, algorithms or tools we use in DIMA may have more restrictive terms of use.
Please cite the following paper when refering to DIMA:
Pagel P, Oesterheld M, Stümpflen V, Frishman D
The DIMA web resource – exploring the protein domain network
Bioinformatics 2006; 22(8): 997-998
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl050
References for individual methods and resources are listed in links.
This work was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the program "Bioinformatics for the Functional Analysis of Mammalian Genomes" (BFAM).
For comments, criticism, questions etc. please contact Dr. Philipp Pagel <p . pagel AT
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