BrachyCyc: A metabolic pathway network of Brachypodium genes

Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 11:54

We are pleased to announce the release of the BrachyCyc database. Developed by the Gramene database project, BrachyCyc is a catalog of predicted metabolic pathways from Brachypodium distachyon. Pathways and genes presented in this catalog are primarily based on the annotations carried out by Gramene on the version 1.2 of the gene models and release 1.0 of the Brachypodium distachyon inbred line Bd21 genome. The database was created using the Pathway Tools PathoLogic module developed by Peter D. Karp and co-workers at the Bioinformatics Research Group at SRI International.

This is the first official version (2.0) released for BrachyCyc. Improvements to this version include removal of 26 non-plant pathways. The database will continue to undergo regular rounds of curation in order to integrate exciting new discoveries on biochemical pathways in Brachypodium. We welcome feedback from the research community to help us build a good quality network. You can reach us by sending a message to the BrachyCyc curators.