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MouseCyc: a curated biochemical pathways database for the laboratory mouse

Alexei V Evsikov , Mary E Dolan , Michael P Genrich , Emily Patek and Carol J Bult

The Jackson Laboratory, Main Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R84doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-8-r84

Published:	14 August 2009

Subject areas: Biochemistry and structural biology, Bioinformatics, Model organisms

Abstract

Linking biochemical genetic data to the reference genome for the laboratory mouse is important for comparative physiology and for developing mouse models of human biology and disease. We describe here a new database of curated metabolic pathways for the laboratory mouse called MouseCyc http://mousecyc.jax.org webcite. MouseCyc has been integrated with genetic and genomic data for the laboratory mouse available from the Mouse Genome Informatics database and with pathway data from other organisms, including human.