CitrusCyc: Metabolic Pathway Databases for the C. clementina and C. sinensis Genomes

Metabolic networks constructed from sequenced genomes can help to visualize and analyze large-scale genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics experimental data. The biochemical networks can be used to predict species-specific metabolic phenotypes and study metabolic pathway evolution. We have updated and released the metabolic pathway databases for the C. Clementina and C. sinensis reference genomes. These species-specific metabolic databases are commonly referred to as pathway/genome databases (PGDBs) and have been created using the PathwayTools software. The PGDBs have been generated by utilizing the predicted gene models in the respective species, associated annotations and a curated metabolic reference database (MetaCyc) which contains manually curated and experimentally validated pathways with information about enzymes, genes and compounds. CitrusCyc is avalilable at http://pathways.citrusgenomedb.org/ as a part of the Citrus Genome Database (CGD, www.citrusgenomedb.org).