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Szklarczyk D, Nastou K, Koutrouli M, Kirsch R, Mehryary F, Hachilif R, Hu D, Peluso ME, Huang Q, Fang T, Doncheva NT, Pyysalo S, Bork P, Jensen LJ, von Mering C. 'The STRING database in 2025: protein networks with directionality of regulation.' Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Jan 6;53(D1):D730-D737.<doi:10.1093/nar/gkae1113>

Corresponding BibTeX entry:

  @Article{,
    title = {The STRING database in 2025: protein networks with
      directionality of regulation.},
    author = {Damian Szklarczyk and Katerina Nastou and Mikaela
      Koutrouli and Rebecca Kirsch and Farrokh Mehryary and Radja
      Hachilif and Dewei Hu and Matteo E Peluso and Qingyao Huang and
      Tao Fang and Nadezhda T Doncheva and Sampo Pyysalo and Peer Bork
      and Lars J Jensen and Christian {von Mering}},
    journal = {Nucleic Acids Research (Database issue)},
    year = {2025},
    volume = {53},
  }