PAX of mind for pathway researchers.
Scientists seeking to understand the inner workings of cells have access to a multitude of pathway data resources. However, the representations of pathway data within these resources are not consistent or interchangeable. To facilitate easy information retrieval from a wide variety of pathway resources, such as signal transduction, gene regulation, molecular interaction and metabolic pathway databases, a broad effort in the biopathways community called BioPAX was formed. New biological pathway software applications built using the BioPAX standard will be able to integrate knowledge from multiple sources in a coherent and reliable way. This article reports the progress that the BioPAX work-group has made towards building and deploying the BioPAX data-exchange format for biological pathway data.
Harvard Medical School, MA, USA. jluciano@biopathways.org
Joanne S
JS
Luciano
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D016208:Databases, Factual; D008660:Metabolism / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D013678:Technology, Pharmaceutical / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends