Meta-All: a system for managing metabolic pathway information

Background: Many attempts are being made to understand biological subjects at a systems level. A major resource for these approaches are biological databases, storing manifold information about DNA, RNA and protein sequences including their functional and structural motifs, molecular markers, mRNA expression levels, metabolite concentrations, protein-protein interactions, phenotypic traits or taxonomic relationships. The use of these databases is often hampered by the fact that they are designed for special application areas and thus lack universality. Databases on metabolic pathways, which provide an increasingly important foundation for many analyses of biochemical processes at a systems level, are no exception from the rule. Data stored in central databases such as KEGG, BRENDA or SABIO-RK is often limited to read-only access. If experimentalists want to store their own data, possibly still under investigation, there are two possibilities. They can either develop their own informat...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Stephan Weise, Ivo Grosse, Christian Klukas, Dirk Koschützki, Uwe Scholz, Falk Schreiber, Björn H. Junker
• Keywords: BMCBI 2006, Database, Information, Metabolic Pathways