Pathway Tools version 13.0: integrated software for pathway/genome informatics and systems biology.
by Karp PD, Paley SM, Krummenacker M, Latendresse M, Dale JM, Lee TJ, Kaipa P, Gilham F, Spaulding A, Popescu L, Altman T, Paulsen I, Keseler IM, Caspi R.
Brief Bioinform., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 40-79, Jan 2010.
Pathway Tools is a production-quality software environment for creating a type of model-organism database called a Pathway/Genome Database (PGDB). A PGDB such as EcoCyc integrates the evolving understanding of the genes, proteins, metabolic network and regulatory network of an organism. This article provides an overview of Pathway Tools capabilities. The software performs multiple computational inferences including prediction of metabolic pathways, prediction of metabolic pathway hole fillers and prediction of operons. It enables interactive editing of PGDBs by DB curators. It supports web publishing of PGDBs, and provides a large number of query and visualization tools. The software also supports comparative analyses of PGDBs, and provides several systems biology analyses of PGDBs including reachability analysis of metabolic networks, and interactive tracing of metabolites through a metabolic network. More than 800 PGDBs have been created using Pathway Tools by scientists around the world, many of which are curated DBs for important model organisms. Those PGDBs can be exchanged using a peer-to-peer DB sharing system called the PGDB Registry.
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Pathway ToolsPathway Tools consists of two sets of tools: the Editors and Pathologic. The Editors are specialized for editing a pathway/genome database. Pathologic helps create a new pathway/genome database containing pathways predicted from an annotated genome (typically as a Genbank entry) and the MetaCyc database. |
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Altman, Tomer | Scientific Application Programmer |  |
| Caspi, Ron | Scientific Database Curator | |
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| Gilham, Fred | Software Engineer | ||
| Karp, Peter D | Director, Bioinformatics Research Group | |
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| Keseler, Ingrid M | Senior Scientific Database Curator | |
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Krummenacker, Markus | Bioinformatics Scientist | |
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Latendresse, Mario | Computer Scientist | |
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Lee, Thomas (Tom) J | Senior Research Engineer | |
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Paley, Suzanne | Computer Scientist | |
| Spaulding, Aaron | Computer Scientist | ||
| Subhraveti, Pallavi | Scientific Programmer | |
