Scientiยฎc journals traditionally feature book reviews. Books are, after all, the traditional vehicle for collating, referencing and disseminating knowledge. While this remains essentially true, the advent of the internet as a widely used resource, has radically modiยฎed the manner in which we seek, a
Website Review: pathway databases
โ Scribed by Jo Wixon
- Publisher
- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 362 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1531-6912
- DOI
- 10.1002/cfg.123
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โฆ Synopsis
MetaCyc and EcoCyc
http://ecocyc.org
The EcoCyc database of E. coli metabolic, transport and genetic regulatory networks is structured according to an ontology and consists of a web of frames (objects, eg. genes) stored in a frame knowledge representation system (Karp, 2001). Connections between the frames represent relationships between the objects. Reasoning across this
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