Pathways
From BITS wiki
Pathways (PWs) are molecular workflows converting chemical entities (metabolic PWs) or transducing a signal (signalling PWs) in a living cell or fluid. More generally, a pathway is the graphical representation of all kinds of relationships between entities/genes/proteins/chemicals that build a biological workflow and explain a cellular or molecular set of functions. Other types of pathway belong to the fields of genetics and neurobiology but fall out of the simplified scope of this page.
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Pathway editing tools
- Ingenuity pathway Analysis (commercial product, VIB users only)
- Cytoscape - a universal pathway and network editing tool with many valuable plugins
- PathVisio
- PathwayTools - the official programmatic front end to BioCyc (free for academia)
- Bioconductor includes packages for the analysis and editing of Pathway data for the 'geeks' among us.
Pathway databases
- KEGG Pathway - the canonical collection of manually curated pathway maps (limited access since 2009)
- BioCyc is a collection of 3530 Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs), with tools for understanding their data. It should be replacing KEGG sooner or later and supports many more species. As examples; EcoCyc, AraCyc and HumanCyc are part of BioCyc.
- Reactome is a curated and peer reviewed pathway database with online accompanying tools. There is also a Reactome plugins for Cytoscape and a package in Bioconductor.
- NetPath - a curated resource of signal transduction pathways in humans.
Organism Dedicated genome databases
A non-exhausting list is provided at Wikipedia
Pathway analysis tools (only non-commercial ones)
- MapMan is a user-driven tool that displays large datasets (e.g. gene expression data from Arabidopsis Affymetrix arrays) onto diagrams of metabolic pathways or other processes. This tools is for Plant only (for once ;- ).
