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

Contact

Missing Contact

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

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

Part Of (bfo:0000050 )

kegg

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

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. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

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