Summary of MetaCyc, version 28.5 Tier 1 Highly Curated Database

Database Authors: Ron Caspi¹, Carol A Fulcher¹, Anamika Kothari¹, Markus Krummenacker¹, Mario Latendresse¹, Suzanne Paley¹, Pallavi Subhraveti¹, Peifen Zhang², Sue Rhee², Hartmut Foerster³, Lukas Mueller³, Peter D Karp¹

¹SRI International, ²Carnegie Institution for Science, ³Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

Summary:
MetaCyc is a curated database of experimentally elucidated metabolic pathways from all domains of life.

MetaCyc contains pathways involved in both primary and secondary metabolism, as well as associated metabolites, reactions, enzymes, and genes. The goal of MetaCyc is to catalog the universe of metabolism by storing a representative sample of each experimentally elucidated pathway.

See the MetaCyc home page for more information.

Citations: [Caspi20]

Genes:	15,870	SmartTable	Ontology
Pathways:	3,599	SmartTable	Ontology
Enzymatic Reactions:	19,553
Transport Reactions:	1,010		Ontology
Polypeptides:	17,680	SmartTable	Ontology
Protein Complexes:	4,934	SmartTable	Ontology
Enzymes:	14,174	SmartTable
Transporters:	704	SmartTable
Compounds:	19,661	SmartTable	Ontology
tRNAs:	8		Ontology
Growth Media:	19		List
Protein Features:	33,569
GO Terms:	77,908		Ontology

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References

Caspi20: Caspi R, Billington R, Keseler IM, Kothari A, Krummenacker M, Midford PE, Ong WK, Paley S, Subhraveti P, Karp PD (2020). "The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes - a 2019 update." Nucleic Acids Res 48(D1);D445-D453. PMID: 31586394

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Please cite the following article in publications resulting from the use of MetaCyc: Caspi et al, Nucleic Acids Research 46(D1):D633-D639 2018
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