Number of references (2023/9/27)
total | 70,398 |
pathway | 6,566 |
brite | 446 |
module | 1,097 |
ko | 28,125 |
genome | 6,272 |
agenes | 3,028 |
glycan | 930 |
reaction | 2,030 |
enzyme | 15,948 |
network | 2,507 |
variant | 1,654 |
disease | 10,516 |
Data-oriented entry points
KEGG databases
Category | Entry point | Database | Content | Classification |
Systems information |
KEGG PATHWAY | PATHWAY | KEGG pathway maps | Pathway maps |
KEGG BRITE | BRITE | BRITE hierarchies and tables | Brite hierarchies Brite tables |
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KEGG MODULE KEGG RModule |
MODULE | KEGG modules and reaction modules | Modules Reaction modules |
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Genomic information |
KEGG ORTHOLOGY KEGG Annotation |
KO | Functional orthologs | KO |
KEGG GENES KEGG SeqData |
GENES | Genes and proteins | ||
KEGG GENOME KEGG Virus |
GENOME | Genomes of cellular organisms and viruses | Organisms Viruses |
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Chemical information |
KEGG COMPOUND | COMPOUND | Metabolites and other small molecules | Compounds |
KEGG GLYCAN | GLYCAN | Glycans | ||
KEGG REACTION | REACTION RCLASS |
Biochemical reactions Reaction class |
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KEGG Enzyme | ENZYME | Enzyme nomenclature with sequence data | EC sequence data | |
Health information |
KEGG NETWORK | NETWORK VARIANT |
Disease-related network variations Human gene variants |
Network variation maps |
KEGG DISEASE | DISEASE | Human diseases | Human diseases Infectious diseases |
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KEGG DRUG | DRUG DGROUP |
Drugs Drug groups |
Drugs (ATC) Drugs (target) Antiinfectives |
Associated tools
Category | Entry point | Content |
Systems information |
KEGG Mapper | Suite of KEGG mapping tools |
Genomic information |
KEGG Taxonomy | Taxonomy mapping tool |
KEGG Synteny | Genome comparison and synteny analysis tool |
Five types of database navigation bars
KEGG2 | PATHWAY | BRITE | MODULE | KO | GENES COMPOUND NETWORK DISEASE DRUG | |||
KEGG2 | PATHWAY | BRITE | MODULE | KO | Annotation | Taxonomy | Synteny | Mapper |
KEGG2 | PATHWAY | BRITE | MODULE | KO | GENES GENOME Virus SeqData Enzyme | |||
KEGG2 | PATHWAY | BRITE | MODULE | KO | COMPOUND | GLYCAN | REACTION | RModule |
KEGG2 | PATHWAY | BRITE | MODULE | KO | NETWORK | DISEASE | DRUG | MEDICUS |
MEDICUS extension
Category | Entry point | Database | Content |
Health information |
KEGG MEDICUS | JAPIC | Japanese drug labels |
DailyMed | FDA drug labels (links only) |
GenomeNet extension
Category | Entry point | Database | Content |
Genomic information |
KEGG Metagenomes | MGENES | Genes in metagenomes |
MGENOME | Metagenomes of environmental samples |
Organism-specific entry points
KEGG organisms - list of currently available organisms with organism codes and organism group names
Organism groups and pangenomes
Organism group | Pangenome | Genome | ||
Eukaryotes | Animals Plants Fungi Protists |
Genus level pangenomes |
Species level pangenomes |
KEGG organisms |
Prokaryotes | Bacteria Archaea |
KEGG is developed by Kanehisa Laboratories. See Kanehisa et al. (2021) for updates of KEGG.
Other tools for analysis and retrieval
- DBGET
- Integrated database retrieval system [entry format]
- BlastKOALA
- Automatic KO assignment by BLASTP sequence similarity search
- GhostKOALA
- Automatic KO assignment by GHOSTX sequence similarity search
- KofamKOALA
- Automatic KO assignment by HMM profile search (served by GenomeNet)
See more tools at GenomeNet.
Last updated: October 1, 2022