MetaCrop

MetaCrop provides a meticulously curated repository of plant metabolic pathway and enzyme kinetic data for seven major agronomically significant crops and two model plants to support construction and analysis of metabolic models for crop improvement and biotechnological applications.

Key Features:

• Curated repository: Meticulously curated bioinformatics repository consolidating high-quality plant metabolism data.
• Species coverage: Metabolic pathway information for seven major agronomically significant crops and two model plants.
• Pathway maps: Primary metabolism overview maps summarizing pathway structures.
• Enzyme kinetics: Detailed kinetic enzyme data associated with metabolic reactions.
• Automatic export: Automatic export of metabolic data to enable construction of metabolic models.
• Integration: Web services and an add-on for the Vanted software for integration with external analysis workflows.
• Version update: Version 2.0 expands database content.

Scientific Applications:

• Crop improvement: Support efforts to enhance nutritional value and industrial traits of crop plants.
• Metabolic modeling: Enable construction and analysis of metabolic models using pathway and kinetic data.
• Primary metabolism analysis: Facilitate analysis of primary metabolism via overview maps and pathway information.
• Agricultural biotechnology research: Provide foundational metabolic data for research in agricultural biotechnology.

Methodology:

Automatic export of metabolic data, provision of web services, and an add-on for the Vanted software.