appears_in: []
contact:
  email: pkarp@ai.sri.com
  github: pkarp111
  name: Peter D. Karp
  orcid: 0000-0002-5876-6418
contributor:
  github: hrshdhgd
  name: Harshad Hegde
  orcid: 0000-0002-2411-565X
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: '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](http://www.biocyc.org/glossary.shtml?sid=biocyc14-3908554027#Curation)
  from the scientific experimental literature according to an [extensive process](https://metacyc.org/MetaCycUserGuide.shtml#TAG:__tex2page_sec_4)].
  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'
example: 12DICHLORETHDEG-PWY
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 1012
homepage: https://metacyc.org
keywords: []
mappings: {}
name: Metabolic Encyclopedia for Pathway/Genome Databases
namespace_in_lui: false
preferred_prefix: metacyc.pathway
prefix: metacyc.pathway
providers: []
publications:
- pubmed: '31586394'
  title: The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes - a 2019 update
  year: 2019
- pubmed: '23746312'
  title: The challenge of constructing, classifying, and representing metabolic pathways
  year: 2013
- pubmed: '21523460'
  title: A survey of metabolic databases emphasizing the MetaCyc family
  year: 2011
reviewer:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
synonyms: []
uri_format: https://metacyc.org/META/NEW-IMAGE?object=$1
