Section: New Software and Platforms

Cycads

Keywords: Systems Biology - Bioinformatics

Functional Description: Annotation database system to ease the development and update of enriched BIOCYC databases. CYCADS allows the integration of the latest sequence information and functional annotation data from various methods into a metabolic network reconstruction. Functionalities will be added in future to automate a bridge to metabolic network analysis tools, such as METEXPLORE. CYCADS was used to produce a collection of more than 22 arthropod metabolism databases, available at ACYPICYC (http://acypicyc.cycadsys.org) and ARTHROPODACYC (http://arthropodacyc.cycadsys.org). It will continue to be used to create other databases (newly sequenced organisms, Aphid biotypes and symbionts...).

• Participants: Augusto Vellozo, Hubert Charles, Marie-France Sagot and Stefano Colella

• Contact: Hubert Charles

• URL: http://www.cycadsys.org/