What are the BioCyc databases?
What is it?
BioCyc is a collection of hundreds of Pathway/Genome Databases covering mostly prokaryotes, each of which describing the genome and metabolic pathways of a single organism. Most of these databases are computationally generated, but two are generated by an extensive curation process:
MetaCyc and
EcoCyc. An overview of MetaCyc can be found
here.
What is it for?
- Understanding protein function
- Understanding metabolic pathways
- Understanding gene expression patterns
- Comparative genomics
- Metabolic engineering
What's in it?
- Comprehensive genome sequences
- Computer-predicted metabolic pathways, except for the EcoCyc and MetaCyc databases
- For the EcoCyc and MetaCyc databases, extensive manual characterization of genes and their products at the genomic, protein and functional levels
- Data on regulatory regions
- Compound structures
Key references
Source
Lane Librarian
Record created 5/1/2006.
ypouliot, September 14, 2009