MetaCyc
Sign in to saveThe MetaCyc database is one of the largest metabolic pathways and enzymes databases currently available. The data in the database is manually curated from the scientific literature, and covers all domains of life. MetaCyc has extensive information about chemical compounds, reactions, metabolic pathways and enzymes. The data have been curated from more than 58,000 publications.
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- Biodatabase.title
- MetaCyc
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- Biodatabase.description
- Database of metabolic pathways and enzymes
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- SRI International
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- R. Caspi, H. Foerster, C.A. Fulcher, L.A. Mueller, Peter Karp
- Biodatabase.citation
- Caspi et al. (2014)
- Biodatabase.released
- 1997
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The MetaCyc database is one of the largest metabolic pathways and enzymes databases currently available. The data in the database is manually curated from the scientific literature, and covers all domains of life. MetaCyc has extensive information about chemical compounds, reactions, metabolic pathways and enzymes. The data have been curated from more than 58,000 publications.
MetaCyc has been designed for multiple types of uses. It is often used as an extensive online encyclopedia of metabolism. In addition, MetaCyc is used as a reference data set for computationally predicting the metabolic network of organisms from their sequenced genomes; it has been used to perform pathway predictions for thousands of organisms, including those in the BioCyc Database Collection. MetaCyc is also used in metabolic engineering and metabolomics research.