title: LIGAND: database of chemical compounds and reactions in biological pathways.
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/).
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan. goto@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okuno
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hattori
authors.forename: Takaaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishioka
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanehisa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008024:Ligands; D008660:Metabolism; D018511:Systems Integration; D015262:Xenobiotics / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes; D008024:Ligands; D015262:Xenobiotics