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class="txt1">KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes</h3> <div class="bor1" style="width:530px;"> KEGG is a database resource for understanding high-level functions and utilities of the biological system, such as the cell, the organism and the ecosystem, from molecular-level information, especially large-scale molecular datasets generated by genome sequencing and other high-throughput experimental technologies.<br> See <a href="/kegg/docs/relnote.html">Release notes</a> <span class="small">(October 1, 2024)</span> for new and updated features.<br> <div style="margin-top:6px;"> <span style="color:red;">New article:</span> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae909">KEGG: biological systems database as a model of the real world</a> </div> <div style="margin-top:6px;"> <span style="color:red;">New feature:</span> <a href="/kegg/syntax/gnalign.html">Gene order alignment</a> can now be done either by KOs or <a href="/kegg/genome/virus.html">VOGs</a> </div> <!-- <div style="margin-top:6px;"> <b class="txt1">Announcement</b> <a href="/kegg/docs/announce.html">KEGG API moved to HTTPS</a> </div> --> </div> <br> <b><img src="/Fig/egg.gif" alt="egg"> Main entry point to the KEGG web service</b> <dl> <dt><a href="/kegg/kegg2.html"><b>KEGG2</b></a></dt> <dd>KEGG Table of Contents [<a href="/kegg/docs/updnote.html">Update notes</a> | <a href="/kegg/docs/upd_all.html">Release history</a>]</dd> </dl> <div class="clear"></div> <b><img src="/Fig/egg.gif" alt="egg"> Data-oriented entry points</b> <br> <div style="width:420px; float:left;"> <dl> <dt><a href="/kegg/pathway.html"><b>KEGG PATHWAY</b></a></dt> <dd>KEGG pathway maps [<a href="/kegg/webapp/">Web Apps</a>]</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/brite.html"><b>KEGG BRITE</b></a></dt> <dd>BRITE hierarchies and tables</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/module.html"><b>KEGG MODULE</b></a></dt> <dd>KEGG modules</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/ko.html"><b>KEGG ORTHOLOGY</b></a></dt> <dd>KO functional orthologs [<a href="/kegg/annotation/">Annotation</a>]</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/genes.html"><b>KEGG GENES</b></a></dt> <dd>Genes and proteins [<a href="/kegg/genome/virus.html">KEGG Virus</a>]</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/genome/"><b>KEGG GENOME</b></a></dt> <dd>Genomes [<a href="/kegg/syntax/">Syntax</a>]</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/compound/"><b>KEGG COMPOUND</b></a></dt> <dd>Small molecules</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/glycan/"><b>KEGG GLYCAN</b></a></dt> <dd>Glycans</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/reaction/"><b>KEGG REACTION</b></a></dt> <dd>Biochemical reactions [<a href="/kegg/reaction/rmodule.html">RModule</a>]</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/annotation/enzyme.html"><b>KEGG ENZYME</b></a></dt> <dd>Enzyme nomenclature</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/network.html"><b>KEGG NETWORK</b></a></dt> <dd>Disease-related network variations</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/disease/"><b>KEGG DISEASE</b></a></dt> <dd>Human diseases</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/drug/"><b>KEGG DRUG</b></a></dt> <dd>Drugs [<a href="/kegg/drug/br08328.html">New drug approvals</a>]</dd> </dl> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div style="float:left;"> <div class="bor1"> <ul> <li><a href="/brite/br08901">Pathway</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08902">Brite</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08904">Brite table</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/ko00002a">Module</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08907">Network</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/ko00001">KO (Function)</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08611">Organism</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08621">Virus</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08001">Compound</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08403">Disease (ICD)</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08303">Drug (ATC)</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08310">Drug (Target)</a></li> <li><a href="/brite/br08307">Antimicrobials</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div style="clear:left;"></div> <dl> <dt><a href="/kegg/medicus.html"><b>KEGG MEDICUS</b></a></dt> <dd>Health information resource [<a href="https://www.kegg.jp/medicus-bin/search_medicus">Drug labels search</a>]</dd> </dl> <div class="clear"></div> <b><img src="/Fig/egg.gif" alt="egg"> Organism-specific entry points</b> <dl> <dt style="padding-top:2px;"><a href="/kegg/tables/br08606.html"><b>KEGG Organisms</b></a></dt> <dd> <form name="show" method="post" action="javascript:submit_chk(this.form);"> Enter org code(s) <input type="text" name="org" size="7" value=""> <input type="hidden" name="orgs" value=""> <input type="button" value="Go" onclick="submit_chk(this.form);"> <a href="/kegg-bin/show_organism?org=hsa">hsa</a> <a href="/kegg-bin/show_organism?orgs=hsa+eco">hsa eco</a> </form> </dd> </dl> <div class="clear"></div> <b><img src="/Fig/egg.gif" alt="egg"> Analysis tools</b> <dl> <dt><a href="/kegg/mapper/"><b>KEGG Mapper</b></a></dt> <dd>PATHWAY/BRITE/MODULE mapping tools</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/webapp/"><b>KEGG Web Apps</b></a></dt> <dd>Pathway viewer with coloring features, etc.</dd> <dt><a href="/kegg/syntax/"><b>KEGG Syntax</b></a></dt> <dd>Conserved gene, gene set and gene order analysis</dd> <dt><a href="https://www.kegg.jp/blastkoala/"><b>BlastKOALA</b></a></dt> <dd>BLAST-based KO annotation and KEGG mapping</dd> <dt><a href="https://www.kegg.jp/ghostkoala/"><b>GhostKOALA</b></a></dt> <dd>GHOSTX-based KO annotation and KEGG mapping</dd> <dt><a href="https://www.genome.jp/tools/blast/"><b>BLAST</b></a>/<a href="https://www.genome.jp/tools/fasta/"><b>FASTA</b></a></dt> <dd>Sequence similarity search</dd> <dt><a href="https://www.genome.jp/tools/simcomp/"><b>SIMCOMP</b></a></dt> <dd>Chemical structure similarity search</dd> </dl> <div class="clear"></div> <br> </div> <hr class="frame1"> <!-- end --> </div> <div id="footer2"> <a href="https://www.kegg.jp/kegg/legal.html">Copyright</a> 1995-2024 <a href="https://www.kanehisa.jp/">Kanehisa Laboratories</a> </div> </body> </html>