Logo for KEGG Orthology

KEGG Orthology (KO) consists of manually defined, generalised ortholog groups that correspond to KEGG pathway nodes and BRITE hierarchy nodes in all organisms.

Prefix
kegg.orthology
Keywords
classification pathway
Links
Homepage
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in KEGG Orthology should match this regular expression:
^K\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
K00001   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from KEGG Orthology should match this regular expression:
^kegg\.orthology:K\d+$

Example CURIE
kegg.orthology:K00001
Contacts
Contact
Missing Contact
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Part Of (bfo:0000050 )
kegg
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 4 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext KEGG.ORTHOLOGY
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam kegg.orthology
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t kegg.orthology
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons kegg.orthology
Providers

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 K00001 is used to demonstrate the providers available for KEGG Orthology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
KEGG Orthology kegg.orthology http://www.kegg.jp/entry/K00001
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/kegg.orthology:K00001
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/kegg.orthology:K00001
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/kegg.orthology:K00001
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Provider Name Provider Code URL
Bio2RDF bio2rdf http://bio2rdf.org/kegg.orthology:K00001