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. 2002 Jan 1;30(1):402-4.
doi: 10.1093/nar/30.1.402.

LIGAND: database of chemical compounds and reactions in biological pathways

Susumu Goto  1 , Yasushi Okuno, Masahiro Hattori, Takaaki Nishioka, Minoru Kanehisa
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LIGAND: database of chemical compounds and reactions in biological pathways

Susumu Goto et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

LIGAND is a composite database comprising three sections: COMPOUND for the information about metabolites and other chemical compounds, REACTION for the collection of substrate-product relations representing metabolic and other reactions, and ENZYME for the information about enzyme molecules. The current release (as of September 7, 2001) includes 7298 compounds, 5166 reactions and 3829 enzymes. In addition to the keyword search provided by the DBGET/LinkDB system, a substructure search to the COMPOUND and REACTION sections is now available through the World Wide Web (http://www.genome.ad.jp/ligand/). LIGAND may be also downloaded by anonymous FTP (ftp://ftp.genome.ad.jp/pub/kegg/ligand/).

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Figure 1
Relationship between the ISIS version and the DBGET version of LIGAND. COMPOUND and REACTION are managed by the ISIS and substructure and formula searches are executed to this version. They are exported to the flat file formats where several links to the other databases are added to COMPOUND, and COMPOUND is integrated into the DBGET system, in addition to ENZYME.
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