title: KEGGtranslator: visualizing and converting the KEGG PATHWAY database to various formats.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  The KEGG PATHWAY database provides a widely used service for metabolic and nonmetabolic pathways. It contains manually drawn pathway maps with information about the genes, reactions and relations contained therein. To store these pathways, KEGG uses KGML, a proprietary XML-format. Parsers and translators are needed to process the pathway maps for usage in other applications and algorithms. We have developed KEGGtranslator, an easy-to-use stand-alone application that can visualize and convert KGML formatted XML-files into multiple output formats. Unlike other translators, KEGGtranslator supports a plethora of output formats, is able to augment the information in translated documents (e.g. MIRIAM annotations) beyond the scope of the KGML document, and amends missing components to fragmentary reactions within the pathway to allow simulations on those.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  KEGGtranslator is freely available as a Java(™) Web Start application and for download at http://www.cogsys.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/software/KEGGtranslator/. KGML files can be downloaded from within the application.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  clemens.wrzodek@uni-tuebingen.de
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics Tuebingen, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. clemens.wrzodek@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Clemens
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wrzodek
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dräger
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zell
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D012984:Software