The data is weighted and integrated and a confidence score is calculated for all protein interactions. Results of the various computational predictions can be inspected from different designated views. There are two modes of STRING: Protein-mode and [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/ COG]-mode. Predicted interactions are propagated to proteins in other organisms for which interaction has been described by inference of orthology. A web interface is available to access the data and to give a fast overview of the proteins and their interactions. A plug-in for cytoscape to use STRING data is available.
Another possibility to access data STRING is to use the application programming interface (API) by constructing a URL that contain the request.