Rhea is an expert-curated knowledgebase of chemical and transport reactions of biological interest. Enzyme-catalyzed and spontaneously occurring reactions are curated from peer-reviewed literature and represented in a computationally tractable manner by using the ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest) ontology to describe reaction participants. Rhea covers the reactions described by the IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature as well as many additional reactions and can be used for enzyme annotation, genome-scale metabolic modeling and omics-related analyses. Rhea is the standard for enzyme and transporter annotation in UniProtKB.

Prefix

rhea

Alternative Prefixes

RHEA

Keywords

biochemistry life science reaction small molecule

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage

Contact

Anne Morgat   0000-0002-1216-2969

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Rhea, the Annotated Reactions Database should match this regular expression:
^\d{5}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

12345   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Rhea, the Annotated Reactions Database should match this regular expression:
^rhea:\d{5}$

Example CURIE

rhea:12345

Publications

• 2022 Rhea, the reaction knowledgebase in 2022
• 2020 Enzyme annotation in UniProtKB using Rhea
• 2019 Updates in Rhea: SPARQLing biochemical reaction data
• 2016 Updates in Rhea - an expert curated resource of biochemical reactions
• 2014 Updates in Rhea--a manually curated resource of biochemical reactions
• 2011 Rhea--a manually curated resource of biochemical reactions

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

In Collection

Global Biodata Coalition - Global Core Biodata Resources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 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 12345 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Rhea, the Annotated Reactions Database. 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.