A Pathway Tools and BioCyc tutorial well be held September 22-23, 2008 at Kings College London. This tutorial is kindly hosted by the Centre for Bioinformatics at King’s College London (KCBI).
Day 1 is intended to teach users of Pathway Tools databases such as BioCyc, YeastCyc, MouseCyc, and AraCyc how to make the most of these resources.
Day 2 will address creation of new Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) with Pathway Tools, and how to query PGDBs programmatically.
Pathway Tools includes a unique combination of bioinformatics algorithms including a predictor of metabolic pathways, an operon predictor, and an algorithm for predicting which genes in a genome code for missing enzymes in predicted metabolic pathways (“pathway holes”). It also contains tools for painting omics data onto genome-scale visualizations of metabolic networks and regulatory networks.
The tutorial is free of charge.
For more information see the tutorial page at SRI.
Peter Karp
Posted to the GMOD News on 2008/08/28