ParentOverviewReleased: March 2012PlantCyc is a metabolic pathway reference database containing more than 800 pathways and their catalytic enzymes and genes, as well as compounds from over 300 plant species (See Database Statistics). The majority of the pathways have been curated from experimental literature by curators at the PMN and collaborators' sites. In addition, PlantCyc includes hypothetical pathways that are published in peer-reviewed journals based on the educated conjectures of experts, and computationally predicted pathways that have been manually validated by PMN curators. Similarly, enzymes in PlantCyc may have experimental support or may be based solely on computational predictions. For both pathways and enzymes, evidence codes are assigned to clearly indicate the type of support associated with these database items. Taxonomic Range: primarily ViridiplantaeProtein Sequence Source: Varies according to source: All enzymes have been imported from PMN databases, MetaCyc, LycoCyc, RiceCyc, or MedicCyc. Enzyme Functional Annotation Method: Varies according to source: All enzymes have been imported from PMN databases, MetaCyc, LycoCyc, RiceCyc, or MedicCyc. Enzyme Evidence: Substantial manual curation of enzymes In addition, large-scale computational predictions of enzyme function not subject to curator review Pathway Prediction Program: All pathways have been manually imported from PMN databases or MetaCycSAVI pathway validation lists: NPP 2.0UPP 2.0Pathway Evidence: Substantial manual curation of pathways Some computational prediction of pathways followed by curator review Additional pathways imported from MetaCyc based on curator inference Link to PGDB: PlantCyc Content StatisticsPathways: 898Enzymes: 27652Reactions: 3421Compounds: 3334Citations: 6939
