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Reactome

Reactome is a free online database of biological pathways. It is manually curated and authored by PhD-level biologists, in collaboration with Reactome editorial staff. The content is cross-referenced to many bioinformatics databases. The rationale behind Reactome is to visually represent biological pathways in full mechanistic detail, while making the…

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Human genomeUniProtChEBIGene Ontology
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MolecularCellular biology
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Overview

Biological pathwaysBioinformaticsPDFSBMLMySQL
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Data format
BioPAX SBML
Data release frequency
https://reactome.org/about/release-calendar
Description
Reactome: a database of reactions, pathways and biological processes.
Download URL
https://reactome.org/download-data
License
https://reactome.org/license
Web service URL
https://reactome.org/ContentService/

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Reactome

Nodes17
Edges16
Triples34
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.117647
Components1

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Reactome

Top relations

related to Tools · 9
Reactome → ChEBI, Expression, GWAS, If, Mixed, Over-representation, The, There, Uniprot
see also · 8
Reactome → BioCyc, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, Genes, Genomes, Pathway CommonsKEGG, The BRaunschweig ENzyme DAtabase, The Kyoto Encyclopedia, WikiPathways
related to Database content · 5
Reactome → DOI, Each, ORCID, Reviewers, The
related to Database organization · 2
Reactome → In Reactome, Like
Data format · 1
Reactome → BioPAX SBML
Data release frequency · 1
Reactome → https://reactome.org/about/release-calendar
Description · 1
Reactome → Reactome: a database of reactions, pathways and biological processes.
Download URL · 1
Reactome → https://reactome.org/download-data
License · 1
Reactome → https://reactome.org/license
Primary citation · 1
Reactome → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…

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pathways data pathway biological database reactions molecules human tools molecular analysis entities processes used process contain expression proteins format website

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ReactomeData formatBioPAX SBML1.00infobox
ReactomeData release frequencyhttps://reactome.org/about/release-calendar1.00infobox
ReactomeDescriptionReactome: a database of reactions, pathways and biological processes.1.00infobox
ReactomeDownload URLhttps://reactome.org/download-data1.00infobox
ReactomeLicensehttps://reactome.org/license1.00infobox
ReactomePrimary citation.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…1.00infobox
ReactomeWeb service URLhttps://reactome.org/ContentService/1.00infobox
ReactomeWebsitehttps://reactome.org1.00infobox
Reactomeis afree online database of biological pathways0.90text
the activation of a protein by cleavage of one or more of its peptide bondsinstance ofand events0.80text
Reactomerelated to Database contentThe0.60section
Reactomerelated to Database contentReviewers0.60section

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