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KEGG GENES Database

Molecular building blocks of life in the genomic space

KEGG2 KO GENES SSDB Taxonomy Organisms
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KEGG Organisms

KEGG GENES is a collection of gene catalogs for all complete genomes generated from publicly available resources, mostly NCBI RefSeq. They are subject to SSDB computation and manual KO assignment (gene annotation). KEGG DGENES for draft genomes of some eukaryotes and KEGG EGENES for EST datasets of mostly plants are supplementary gene catalogs, which are given automatic KO assignment with GENES used as a reference data set. The organisms in GENES, DGENES, and EGENES constitute KEGG GENOME, or the KEGG organisms identified by the three-letter KEGG organism codes (with prefix "d" for draft genomes and "e" for EST contigs).
Genomes in the taxonomy Gene
catalog
Genome Remark
KEGG Orgnisms (table)
KEGG Organisms (short)
KEGG Organisms (long)
Animals
Plants
GENES GENOME Three-letter organism codes for high-quality genomes with manual (and KOALA) annotations
DGENES Four-letter organism codes
starting with "d" for draft genomes with automatic (KAAS) annotation
EGENES Four-letter organism codes
starting with "e" for EST contigs with automatic (KAAS) annotation
Complete viral genomes VGENES VGENOME Available only in DBGET
Complete mitochondrial genomes
Complete plastid genomes
Complete nucleomorph genomes
OGENES  

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Gene Annotation

The annotation of KEGG GENES involves assignment of KO identifiers (K numbers). Internally, this is done using the KOALA and GFIT annotation tools based on the SSDB database (see: Ortholog Annotation in KEGG). The annotation of KEGG DGENES and EGENES is done automatically using the KAAS program, and EGENES is generated from EST datasets by the EGassembler program. Both of these programs are made publicly available.

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KAAS: automatic annotation (KO assignment) and pathway reconstruction [reference]
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EGassembler: automatic assembly of ESTs to generate consensus contigs [reference]
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BLAST:sequence similarity search by BLAST
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Gene Name Conversion

KEGG GENES can be retrieved by giving identifiers of outside databases, such as NCBI-GeneID (Entrez Gene ID), NCBI-gi, and UniProt accession numbers. Cross-reference lists are available at the FTP site.

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Last updated: October 5, 2009
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