Searching KEGG
The KEGG database is made accessible in two formats. One is the flat-file format for use in simple searches by the DBGET database retrieval system. The other is the relational database format for more sophisticated queries in selected databases.1. DBGET Search
DBGET has been developed as the backbone retrieval system for the GenomeNet and KEGG services (see the history of development). It is based on a flat-file view of molecular biology databases, where the database is considered as a collection of entries. Thus, any entry of any database can be retrieved by the combination of the database name and the entry name in the form of:db:entryDBGET has two basic commands:
bget - to retrieve 'db:entry'The keyword search is performed against the following fields (see DBGET in KEGG).
bfind - to find 'db:entry's by keyword search
| Database name | Abbre- viation |
Search fields | ||
| kegg | pathway | path | ENTRY, NAME | |
| brite | br | ENTRY, NAME, and entire text | ||
| module | md | ENTRY, NAME | ||
| disease | ds | ENTRY, NAME | ||
| drug | dr | ENTRY, NAME | ||
| environ | ev | ENTRY, NAME | ||
| orthology | ko | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION | ||
| genomes | genome | gn | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION | |
| egenome | egnm | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION | ||
| mgenome | mgnm | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION | ||
| genes | (T numbers) | org code |
ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION, ORTHOLOGY | |
| dgenes | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION, ORTHOLOGY | |||
| egenes | (T numbers) | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION, ORTHOLOGY | ||
| mgenes | (T numbers) | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION, ORTHOLOGY | ||
| ligand | compound | cpd | ENTRY, NAME | |
| glycan | gl | ENTRY, NAME, COMPOSITION, CLASS | ||
| reaction | rn | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION | ||
| rpair | rp | ENTRY, NAME | ||
| rclass | rc | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION | ||
| enzyme | ec | ENTRY, NAME | ||
| expression | ex | ENTRY, DEFINITION | ||
| vgenome | vgnm | ENTRY, DEFINITION | ||
| vgenes | vg | ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION | ||
2. RDB Search
The search interfaces in the following pages are direct SQL searches against the read-only copy of the internal KEGG database.| Database page | Search fields | |
| PATHWAY | Entry, Name, Description, Map objects, Map legends | |
| DISEASE | Entry, Name, Description, Category, Pathway, Gene | |
| DRUG | Entry, Name, Product name, Component | |
| ENVIRON | Entry, Name, Category, Source, Component | |
| LIGAND | COMPOUND | Entry, Name, Formula, Exact mass, Reaction, Pathway, Enzyme, DBlinks |
| GLYCAN | Entry, Name, Composition, Class, Reaction, Pathway, Enzyme, DBlinks | |
| REACTION | Entry, Name, RPair, Pathway, Enzyme | |
| RPAIR | Entry, Compound, RDM, Type | |
Last updated: February 6, 2012