What is the BRENDA database?
What is it?
The
BRENDA database is a comprehensive, high-quality protein function database, containing enzymatic and metabolic information extracted from the primary literature.
What is it for?
- Understanding enzyme function and structure, including functional reaction properties
- Enzyme tissue localization and species distribution
- Understanding metabolic pathways
- Finding enzymes using variant nomenclature
- Finding enzymes using ligand structural searches
- Comparative genomics
- Enzyme engineering
What's in it?
- Manually curated enzyme data derived from the literature
- Extensive manual characterization of enzymes properties
- Enzyme and compound structures
- Association with diseases
Key references
Source
Lane Librarian
Record created 5/1/2006
ypouliot, September 14, 2009