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The Enzyme Portal: an integrative tool for enzyme information and analysis
Rossana Zaru1, Joseph Onwubiko1, Antonio J M Ribeiro1
1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Abstract:
Enzymes play essential roles in all life processes and are used extensively in the biomedical and biotechnological fields. However, enzyme-related information is spread across multiple resources making its retrieval time-consuming. In response to this challenge, the Enzyme Portal has been established to facilitate enzyme research, by providing a freely available hub where researchers can easily find and explore enzyme-related information. It integrates relevant enzyme data for a wide range of species from various resources such as UniProtKB, PDBe and ChEMBL. Here, we describe what type of enzyme-related data the Enzyme Portal provides, how the information is organized and, by show-casing two potential use cases, how to access and retrieve it.
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