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BioPath Database
BioPath is a database containing biochemical molecules, reactions and pathways.
The first version of BioPath provided access to metabolic transformations and cellular regulations derived from the Roche Applied Science "Biochemical Pathways" wall chart.
In the meantime additional information on metabolic pathways had been extracted from the primary literature and added to BioPath.
Basic Statistics about the Database (SVN-1256 of Jan. 28, 2012)
| Biological object | Amount |
|---|---|
| # Molecules (unique, in total) | 13.417 |
| # Molecules (unique, ubiquitous) | 80 |
| # Molecules (unique, in reactions) | 3.516 |
| # Molecule names (in total) | 29.243 |
| # Molecule names (English) | 27.167 |
| # Molecule names (Chinese) | 2.076 |
| # Reactions (in total) | 4.891 |
| # Reactions (reported) | 3.912 |
| # Reactions (special, carotenoids) | 979 |
| # Reactions (unbalanced) | 0 |
| # Pathways | 639 |
| % Coverage PubChem | 66.4 |
| % Coverage ChEBI | 33.3 |
| % Coverage KEGG Molecules | 49.5 |
Statistics about physicochemical properties
| property name | minimum | maximum |
|---|---|---|
| molecular weight | 0.00 | 3619.92 |
| molecular complexity | 0.00 | 8292.44 |
Acknowledgement
We gratefully acknowledge the following software programs and projects that have been used within BioPath.Explore
| Logo | Sofware/Project | License | Description of usage/Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
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Cytoscape Web | open-source software released under LGPL 2.1 license | Display of biochemical pathways |
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BKChem.org - OASA | GPL license | Generation of structure images during database build-up, software is not included in the distribution |
Financial Support / Funding
The development of BioPath had been funded by BMBF within the BFAM project (031U112A, 031U212A) and by the EU within the Microme project (Grant Agreement Number 222886-2).