Table 1

Overview of metabolic pathway databases used

Database

Export formats used

Version^a

Downloaded from

BiGG

Flat file, SBML

1

http://bigg.ucsd.edu/ webcite

EHMN

Excel

2

http://www.ehmn.bioinformatics.ed.ac.uk/ webcite

HumanCyc

Flat file

15.0

http://biocyc.org/download.shtml webcite

KEGG

Flat file, KGML

58

ftp://ftp.genome.jp/pub/kegg/ webcite

Reactome

MySQL database

36

http://reactome.org/download/index.html webcite

^aDownloaded in the first week of May 2011

KGML: KEGG Markup Language; SBML: Systems Biology Markup Language.

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