The Molecular Interactions (MI) ontology forms a structured controlled vocabulary for the annotation of experiments concerned with protein-protein interactions. MI is developed by the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative.

Prefix

mi

Preferred Prefix

MI

Alternative Prefixes

PSI-MI

Keywords

interaction life science molecule obo ontology

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Pablo Porras Millán   0000-0002-8429-8793   pporrasebi

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Molecular Interactions Controlled Vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^\d{4}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0058   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Molecular Interactions Controlled Vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^mi:\d{4}$

Example CURIE

mi:0058

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource includes the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. The actual part that gets prefixed before the local unique identifier regex, otherwise known as the banana, is MI:. Therefore, you might see local unique identifiers written out as CURIEs.

Publications

2004 The HUPO PSI's molecular interaction format--a community standard for the representation of protein interaction data.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 12 mappings to external registries for mi with 5 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE mi:0058 is used to demonstrate the provides available for mi. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.