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STRING uses a relational database system (PostgreSQL) to store primary data and precomputed predictions. For convenience, we provide selected data-items as flatfiles below. Please note: the complete dataset of STRING is also available - but it requires signing a license agreement (free for academics, see here for details).

Files that do not require a separate license agreement are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License or a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Protein mode (flatfiles)
- File -- Description -- Access -
protein.sequences.v8.2.fa.gz (583.1 Mb)sequences of all proteins in STRINGCreative Commons License
protein.links.v8.2.txt.gz (1.1 Gb)protein network data (scored links between proteins)Creative Commons License
protein.links.detailed.v8.2.txt.gz (1.6 Gb)protein network data (incl. subscores per channel); commercial entities require a license.Creative Commons License
protein.actions.v8.2.txt.gz (63.1 Mb)interaction types for protein linksCreative Commons License
protein.actions.detailed.v8.2.txt.gz (69.7 Mb)interaction types for protein links (incl. subscores per type); commercial entities require a license.Creative Commons License
protein.links.full.v8.2.txt.gz (1.8 Gb)protein network data (incl. distinction: direct vs. interologs); all users require a licenselicense required
 
COG mode (flatfiles)
- File -- Description -- Access -
COG.mappings.v8.2.txt.gz (43.5 Mb)orthologous groups (COGs,NOGs,KOGs,...) and their proteinsCreative Commons License
protein.sequences.v8.2.fa.gz (583.1 Mb)sequences of all proteins in STRING (can be used as a blast db)Creative Commons License
species.mappings.v8.2.txt.gz (5.6 Mb)presence / absence of orthologous groups in speciesCreative Commons License
COG.links.v8.2.txt.gz (64.6 Mb)association scores between orthologous groupsCreative Commons License
COG.links.detailed.v8.2.txt.gz (88.7 Mb)association scores (incl. subscores per channel); commercial entities require a license.Creative Commons License
 
General flatfiles & full database dumps
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species.v8.2.txt (44.8 Kb)organisms in STRINGCreative Commons License
species.tree.v8.2.txt (14.9 Kb)STRING tree of speciesCreative Commons License
database.schema.v8.2.pdf (171.7 Kb)STRING database schemaCreative Commons License
protein.aliases.v8.2.txt.gz (136.6 Mb)aliases for STRING proteins: locus names, accessions, descriptions...Creative Commons License
items_schema.v8.2.sql.gz (1.2 Gb)full database, part I: the players (proteins, species, COGs,...)license required
network_schema.v8.2.sql.gz (2 Gb)full database, part II: the networks (nodes, edges, scores,...)license required
evidence_schema.v8.2.sql.gz (3.7 Gb) FTPfull database, part III: interaction evidence (datasets, abstracts, predictions, ...)license required
homology_schema.v8.2.sql.gz (38.9 Gb) FTPfull database, part IV: homology data (all-against-all BLAST searches)license required
 
Please note: STRING is subject to periodic updates. Therefore, do visit back on this page to get the latest associations whenever needed. Protein identifiers in the above files contain two substrings each: 'NNNNN.aaaaaa'. The first substring is the NCBI taxonomy species identifier, and the second substring is the RefSeq/Ensembl-identifier of the protein. Please note that some of the files are very large. You may experience problems downloading them, depending on your browser and/or operating system. For files larger than 2 GBytes, the best way is to download them using a unix-system and its command-line 'ftp' utility. To do that, please visit our FTP server (see here).