The MetaCyc Database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases
by Caspi R, Foerster H, Fulcher C. A, Kaipa P, Krummenacker M, Latendresse M, Paley S, Rhee S. Y, Shearer A. G, Tissier C, Walk T. C, Zhang P, Karp P. D.
Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 36, pp. D623-D631, 2007.
MetaCyc (MetaCyc.org) is a universal database of metabolic pathways and enzymes from all domains of life. The pathways in MetaCyc are curated from the primary scientific literature, and are experimentally determined small-molecule metabolic pathways. Each reaction in a MetaCyc pathway is annotated with one or more well-characterized enzymes. Because MetaCyc contains only experimentally elucidated knowledge, it provides a uniquely high-quality resource for metabolic pathways and enzymes. BioCyc (BioCyc.org) is a collection of more than 350 organism-specific Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs). Each BioCyc PGDB contains the predicted metabolic network of one organism, including metabolic pathways, enzymes, metabolites and reactions predicted by the Pathway Tools software using MetaCyc as a reference database. BioCyc PGDBs also contain predicted operons and predicted pathway hole fillers-predictions of which enzymes may catalyze pathway reactions that have not been assigned to an enzyme. The BioCyc website offers many tools for computational analysis of PGDBs, including comparative analysis and analysis of omics data in a pathway context. The BioCyc PGDBs generated by SRI are offered for adoption by any interested party for the ongoing integration of metabolic and genome-related information about an organism.
| DOI 10.1093/nar/gkm900 |
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BioCyc Database CollectionThe BioCyc Database Collection is a collection of Pathway/Genome Databases. Each database in the BioCyc collection describes the genome and metabolic pathways of a single organism. |
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MetaCyc: Metabolic Pathway DatabaseMetaCyc is a database of nonredundant, experimentally elucidated metabolic pathways. MetaCyc contains more than 1800 pathways from more than 2200 different organisms (circa 2012). The MetaCyc data were curated from more than 33,000 scientific publications. MetaCyc describes metabolic pathways, reactions, enzymes, and metabolites. |
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| Caspi, Ron | Scientific Database Curator |  |
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| Fulcher, Carol A | Scientific Database Curator | |
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| Karp, Peter D | Director, Bioinformatics Research Group | |
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Krummenacker, Markus | Bioinformatics Scientist | |
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Latendresse, Mario | Computer Scientist | |
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Paley, Suzanne | Computer Scientist | |
| Shearer, Alexander | Biologist | |
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| Subhraveti, Pallavi | Scientific Programmer | |
