ComPath: comparative enzyme analysis and annotation in pathway/subsystem contexts

Background: Once a new genome is sequenced, one of the important questions is to determine the presence and absence of biological pathways. Analysis of biological pathways in a genome is a complicated task since a number of biological entities are involved in pathways and biological pathways in different organisms are not identical. Computational pathway identification and analysis thus involves a number of computational tools and databases and typically done in comparison with pathways in other organisms. This computational requirement is much beyond the capability of biologists, so information systems for reconstructing, annotating, and analyzing biological pathways are much needed. We introduce a new comparative pathway analysis workbench, ComPath, which integrates various resources and computational tools using an interactive spreadsheet-style web interface for reliable pathway analyses. Results: ComPath allows users to compare biological pathways in multiple genomes using a sprea...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Kwangmin Choi, Sun Kim
• Keywords: Biological Pathways, BMCBI 2008, Computational Tools, Genomes