The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases

Ron Caspi, Tomer Altman, Richard Billington, Kate Dreher, Hartmut Foerster, Carol A. Fulcher, Timothy A. Holland, Ingrid M. Keseler, Anamika Kothari, Aya Kubo, Markus Krummenacker, Mario Latendresse (+8 others)
2013 Nucleic Acids Research  
The MetaCyc database (MetaCyc.org) is a comprehensive and freely accessible database describing metabolic pathways and enzymes from all domains of life. MetaCyc pathways are experimentally determined, mostly small-molecule metabolic pathways and are curated from the primary scientific literature. MetaCyc contains >2100 pathways derived from >37 000 publications, and is the largest curated collection of metabolic pathways currently available. BioCyc (BioCyc.org) is a collection of >3000
more » ... specific Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), each containing the full genome and predicted metabolic network of one organism, including metabolites, enzymes, reactions, metabolic pathways, predicted operons, transport systems and pathway-hole fillers. Additions to BioCyc over the past 2 years include YeastCyc, a PGDB for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and 891 new genomes from the Human Microbiome Project. The BioCyc Web site offers a variety of tools for querying and analysis of PGDBs, including Omics Viewers and tools for comparative analysis. New developments include atom mappings in reactions, a new representation of glycan degradation pathways, improved compound structure display, better coverage of enzyme kinetic data, enhancements of the Web Groups functionality, improvements to the Omics viewers, a new representation of the Enzyme Commission system and, for the desktop version of the software, the ability to save display states.
doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1103 pmid:24225315 pmcid:PMC3964957 fatcat:mfa4okdnxvhwrgf27kguvrss2q