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The aMAZE LightBench (http://www.amaze.ulb. ac.be/) is a web interface to the aMAZE relational database, which contains information on gene expression, catalysed chemical reactions, regulatory interactions, protein assembly, as well as metabolic and signal transduction pathways. It allows the user to browse the information in an intuitive way, which also reflects the underlying data model. Moreover links are provided to literature references, and whenever appropriate, to external databases.
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Fenómenos Fisiológicos Celulares , Bases de Datos Factuales , Internet , Biología Molecular , Interfaz Usuario-Computador , Fenómenos Bioquímicos , Bioquímica , Biología Computacional , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Almacenamiento y Recuperación de la Información , Metabolismo , Unión Proteica , Transducción de SeñalRESUMEN
Biological Pathway Exchange (BioPAX) is a standard language to represent biological pathways at the molecular and cellular level and to facilitate the exchange of pathway data. The rapid growth of the volume of pathway data has spurred the development of databases and computational tools to aid interpretation; however, use of these data is hampered by the current fragmentation of pathway information across many databases with incompatible formats. BioPAX, which was created through a community process, solves this problem by making pathway data substantially easier to collect, index, interpret and share. BioPAX can represent metabolic and signaling pathways, molecular and genetic interactions and gene regulation networks. Using BioPAX, millions of interactions, organized into thousands of pathways, from many organisms are available from a growing number of databases. This large amount of pathway data in a computable form will support visualization, analysis and biological discovery.