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. 2018 Feb 27;14(4):37. doi: 10.1007/s11306-018-1335-y

Table 3.

List of databases of metabolic pathways

Acronym Full name Features Reference
BiGG Biochemical genetic and genomic knowledgebase of large scale metabolic reconstructions A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of the human metabolism Schellenberger et al. (2010)
BioCyc BioCyc database collection A collection of computationally predicted metabolic pathways for nearly 9400 organisms whose genome is available
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Caspi et al. (2016)
HumanCyc Encyclopedia of human genes and metabolism A partially curated database of metabolic reactions derived from the human genome
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Romero et al. (2004)
KEGG Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes A collection of manually drawn pathway maps Kanehisa et al. (2017)
MetaCyc MetaCyc metabolic pathway database A curated database of experimentally elucidated pathways Caspi et al. (2016)
Reactome NA A curated, peer-reviewed knowledgebase of biological pathways, including metabolic pathways. It is mainly focused on human pathways Fabregat et al. (2016)
WikiPathways NA A database of biological pathways maintained by and for the scientific community Kelder et al. (2012)