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The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes
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MetaCyc (https://MetaCyc.org) is a comprehensive reference database of metabolic pathways and enzymes from all domains of life. It contains more than 2570 pathways derived from >54 000 publications, making it the largest curated collection of metabolic pathways. The data in MetaCyc is strictly evidence-based and richly curated, resulting in an encyclopedic reference tool for metabolism. MetaCyc is also used as a knowledge base for generating thousands of organism-specific Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), which are available in the BioCyc (https://BioCyc.org) and other PGDB collections. This article provides an update on the developments in MetaCyc during the past two years, including the expansion of data and addition of new features.
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- Caspi, R., Billington, R., Fulcher, C. A., Keseler, I. M., Kothari, A., Krummenacker, M., Latendresse, M., Midford, P. E., Ong, Q., Ong, W. K., Paley, S., Subhraveti, P., & Karp, P. D.
- Venue
- Nucleic Acids Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2017-10-20
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- D1
- Pages
- D633-D639
- ISSN
- 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
- 1362-4962
- OpenAlex
- W2767088268
- Cited by
- 894
- References
- 18
- FWCI
- 26.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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