{"id":1634,"date":"2018-06-08T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2018-06-08T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:42:30","slug":"biocyc-a-collection-of-pathway-genome-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2018\/06\/08\/biocyc-a-collection-of-pathway-genome-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"BioCyc: A Collection of Pathway\/Genome Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">We now have access&nbsp;to <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.lib.uiowa.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/biocyc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BioCyc<\/a><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">, a collection of Pathway\/Genome Databases (PGDBs).&nbsp;You can search&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"spellingerror\">BioCyc<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&nbsp;by&nbsp;gene, protein,&nbsp;enzyme,&nbsp;or&nbsp;metabolic pathway.&nbsp;You&nbsp;can use advanced tools to&nbsp;view metabolic diagrams, to perform data analysis, and to compare organisms.&nbsp;You&nbsp;can register for a free&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"spellingerror\">BioCyc<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&nbsp;account&nbsp;if you would like&nbsp;to&nbsp;customize&nbsp;your viewing preferences,&nbsp;to&nbsp;create&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"spellingerror\">SmartTables<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&nbsp;to store&nbsp;datasets, and&nbsp;to&nbsp;run and save metabolic models.&nbsp;You can export high-quality metabolic diagrams and&nbsp;create your own PGDB from an annotated genome file.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"spellingerror\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">These organism-specific&nbsp;databases are divided into three tiers based upon the level of data curation, with tier 1 databases having the&nbsp;highest&nbsp;level of curation&nbsp;by&nbsp;scientists.&nbsp;Tier 2 databases have&nbsp;had moderate curation, and tier 3 databases are computationally created with no curation.&nbsp;Examples of the most popular tier 1 databases are&nbsp;<i>Escherichia coli K-12&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><span class=\"spellingerror\"><i>substr<\/i><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><i>. MG1655 (<\/i><\/span><span class=\"spellingerror\"><i>EcoCyc<\/i><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><i>),&nbsp;Homo sapiens,&nbsp;<\/i>and&nbsp;<i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c<\/i>.&nbsp;When you start out in BioCyc, the default&nbsp;organism database is&nbsp;<i>E. coli K-12<\/i>. To change to a different database, you can click&nbsp;on &#8220;change&nbsp;organism database&#8221; at the top right of the page.&nbsp;After you choose a new database, you are taken to a summary page for the database. Then you can click on&nbsp;a&nbsp;chromosome (or genome)&nbsp;to view&nbsp;annotations in the genome browser.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/06\/Change-organism-database.png\" alt=\"Image of how to change organism database\" width=\"561\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/06\/Change-organism-database.png 561w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2018\/06\/Change-organism-database-300x70.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"spellingerror\">HawkID<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&nbsp;authentication is required for off-campus use&nbsp;of&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"spellingerror\">BioCyc<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">.&nbsp;Do you still have questions? Contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sciences\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciences Library<\/a><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&nbsp;for help!&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"eop\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have access&nbsp;to BioCyc, a collection of Pathway\/Genome Databases (PGDBs).&nbsp;You can search&nbsp;BioCyc&nbsp;by&nbsp;gene, protein,&nbsp;enzyme,&nbsp;or&nbsp;metabolic pathway.&nbsp;You&nbsp;can use advanced tools to&nbsp;view metabolic diagrams, to perform data analysis, and to compare organisms.&nbsp;You&nbsp;can register for a free&nbsp;BioCyc&nbsp;account&nbsp;if you would like&nbsp;to&nbsp;customize&nbsp;your viewing preferences,&nbsp;to&nbsp;create&nbsp;SmartTables&nbsp;to store&nbsp;datasets, and&nbsp;to&nbsp;run and save metabolic models.&nbsp;You can export high-quality metabolic diagrams and&nbsp;create your own PGDB from an<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/2018\/06\/08\/biocyc-a-collection-of-pathway-genome-databases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;BioCyc: A Collection of Pathway\/Genome Databases&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":1635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,61],"tags":[62,63,64],"syndication":[41,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}