We are always looking for authors willing to directly deposit peer-reviewed protein interaction data into DIP. Whereas, so far, the majority of data in DIP have been entered into the database by trained DIP curators or imported from other members of the IMEx consortium we strongly encourage the authors of the primary experimental data to directly submit their results into DIP and, in effect, into all the other databases participating in IMEx. Besides making the data rapidly available to the research community it would ensure the results are accuratly described with proper identification given to each interacting protein - in our experience unabmigious and accurate identification of the proteins used in each experiment is the most time consuming and error-prone step in the curation process, often resulting in the rejection of otherwise valuable interaction data.

As we realize that describing interaction data in a highly structured format required by the IMEx agreement is not a simple task we provide access to a number of tools co-developed by the members of the IMEx consortium as well as by the HUPO-PSI community in hope to make the process as simple and user friendly as possible.