MetaCyc is a database of non-redundant, experimentally elucidated metabolic pathways and enzymes. It also contains reactions, chemical compounds, and genes. It stores predominantly qualitative information rather than quantitative data, although it does contain some quantitative data such as enzyme kinetics data.

MetaCyc is curated from the scientific experimental literature according to an extensive process]. The majority of pathways occurring in it are from microorganisms and plants. MetaCyc stores thousands of additional enzyme-catalyzed reactions that have not yet been assigned an EC number

Prefix

metacyc.pathway

Links

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Contact

Peter Karp   0000-0002-5876-6418   pkarp111

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

12DICHLORETHDEG-PWY   Resolve

Example CURIE

metacyc.pathway:12DICHLORETHDEG-PWY

Publications

• 2019 The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes - a 2019 update
• 2013 The challenge of constructing, classifying, and representing metabolic pathways
• 2011 A survey of metabolic databases emphasizing the MetaCyc family

Contributors

• submitter Harshad Hegde   0000-0002-2411-565X   hrshdhgd

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 12DICHLORETHDEG-PWY is used to demonstrate the providers available for Metabolic Encyclopedia for Pathway/Genome Databases. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.