UniPathway: a resource for the exploration and annotation of metabolic pathways
Morgat, Anne ; Coissac, Eric ; Coudert, Elisabeth ; Axelsen, Kristian B. ; Keller, Guillaume ; Bairoch, Amos ; Bridge, Alan ; Bougueleret, Lydie ; Xenarios, Ioannis ; Viari, Alain
In: Nucleic Acids Research, 2012, vol. 40, no. D1, p. D761-D769
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- UniPathway (http://www.unipathway.org) is a fully manually curated resource for the representation and annotation of metabolic pathways. UniPathway provides explicit representations of enzyme-catalyzed and spontaneous chemical reactions, as well as a hierarchical representation of metabolic pathways. This hierarchy uses linear subpathways as the basic building block for the assembly of larger and more complex pathways, including species-specific pathway variants. All of the pathway data in UniPathway has been extensively cross-linked to existing pathway resources such as KEGG and MetaCyc, as well as sequence resources such as the UniProt KnowledgeBase (UniProtKB), for which UniPathway provides a controlled vocabulary for pathway annotation. We introduce here the basic concepts underlying the UniPathway resource, with the aim of allowing users to fully exploit the information provided by UniPathway