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| Overview |
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MetaCyc is a database of nonredundant,
experimentally elucidated metabolic pathways. MetaCyc contains
more than 1,100 pathways from more than 1,500 different
organisms. [more],
and is curated from the scientific experimental literature.
[more]
MetaCyc contains pathways involved in both primary
[def]
and secondary [def]
metabolism, as well as associated compounds, enzymes, and genes.
[more]
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Motivation
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The goal of MetaCyc is to catalog the universe of metabolism by storing a representative sample of each experimentally
elucidated pathway. [MetaCyc mission]
MetaCyc is used in a variety of scientific applications, such as providing a reference data set for computationally
predicting the metabolic pathways of organisms from their sequenced genomes, supporting metabolic engineering, helping to
compare biochemical networks, and serving as an encyclopedia of metabolism.
[scientific applications]
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Query and Visualization
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MetaCyc pathways can be browsed from a list, from ontologies
[def], or queried directly when searching for
pathways, proteins, reactions or compounds.
[more] MetaCyc can also be queried
programmatically using Java
or PERL when installed locally.
[more]
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New Users
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Get a bird's eye view of the MetaCyc web site here.
Participate in the MetaCyc survey.
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How to Cite |
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Please cite MetaCyc as Caspi et al., 2008,
"The MetaCyc Database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc
collection of Pathway/Genome Databases", Nucleic Acids Research
in publications resulting from its use.
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Acknowledgments
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The development of MetaCyc is funded by grant GM080746 from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
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