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Table 8 Comparison of pathway data content in MetaCyc and KEGG

From: A systematic comparison of the MetaCyc and KEGG pathway databases

Category

MetaCyc

KEGG

Pathway classes

490

107

Pathway instances

2142

416

Pathways with comments

2122

51

Mean comment length

2240.6

83.6

DB links per pathway

0.34

0.88

Reactions per pathway

5.73

19.10

  1. KEGG pathway classes were extracted from the MAP and MODULE datasets based on the CLASS attribute. Comment length is measured in number of characters.
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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