Reactome: a knowledgebase of biological pathways

Joshi-Tope, G., Gillespie, M., Vastrik, I., D'Eustachio, P., Schmidt, E., de Bono, B., Jassal, B., Gopinath, G. R., Wu, G. R., Matthews, L., Lewis, S., Birney, E., Stein, L. D. (January 2005) Reactome: a knowledgebase of biological pathways. Nucleic Acids Res, 33 (Databa). D428-32. ISSN 1362-4962 (Electronic)

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Abstract

Reactome, located at http://www.reactome.org is a curated, peer-reviewed resource of human biological processes. Given the genetic makeup of an organism, the complete set of possible reactions constitutes its reactome. The basic unit of the Reactome database is a reaction; reactions are then grouped into causal chains to form pathways. The Reactome data model allows us to represent many diverse processes in the human system, including the pathways of intermediary metabolism, regulatory pathways, and signal transduction, and high-level processes, such as the cell cycle. Reactome provides a qualitative framework, on which quantitative data can be superimposed. Tools have been developed to facilitate custom data entry and annotation by expert biologists, and to allow visualization and exploration of the finished dataset as an interactive process map. Although our primary curational domain is pathways from Homo sapiens, we regularly create electronic projections of human pathways onto other organisms via putative orthologs, thus making Reactome relevant to model organism research communities. The database is publicly available under open source terms, which allows both its content and its software infrastructure to be freely used and redistributed.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Animals Databases Factual Gene Expression Profiling Humans Metabolism Physiological Processes Signal Transduction User-Computer Interface
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > databases > database construction
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > databases > database optimization
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > databases
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Stein lab
Depositing User: CSHL Librarian
Date: 1 January 2005
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2012 18:36
Last Modified: 07 May 2018 15:41
PMCID: PMC540026
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22613

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