MetaCyc is a curated database of experimentally elucidated metabolic pathways from all domains of life. MetaCyc contains 2526 pathways from 2844 different organisms. MetaCyc contains pathways involved in both primary and secondary metabolism, as well as associated metabolites, reactions, enzymes, and genes. The goal of MetaCyc is to catalog the universe of metabolism by storing a representative sample of each experimentally elucidated pathway.

Prefix

metacyc.compound

Alternative Prefixes

MetaCyc

Keywords

life science metabolomics systems biology

Links

Homepage

Contact

Peter Karp   0000-0002-5876-6418   pkarp111

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Metabolic Encyclopedia of metabolic and other pathways should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z0-9+_.%-:]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

CPD-10330   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Metabolic Encyclopedia of metabolic and other pathways should match this regular expression:
^metacyc\.compound:[A-Za-z0-9+_.%-:]+$

Example CURIE

metacyc.compound:CPD-10330

Publications

• 2015 The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases
• 2013 The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases
• 2011 The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases

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

In Collection

ChEBI Data Sources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 6 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 CPD-10330 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Metabolic Encyclopedia of metabolic and other pathways. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.