Here is a description of Amos Bairoch's ENZYME database from the
ENZYME User's Manual.
Amos Bairoch
Medical Biochemistry Department
Centre Medical Universitaire
1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Telephone: (+41 22) 361 84 92
Electronic mail address: BAIROCH at CMU.UNIGE.CH
or BAIROCH at CGECMU51.BITNET
1.1) Definition of the scope of the data bank
The 'ENZYME' data bank contains the following data for each type of
characterized enzyme for which an EC number has been provided:
- EC number.
- Recommended name.
- Alternative names (if any).
- Catalytic activity.
- Cofactors (if any).
- Pointers to the SWISS-PROT entrie(s) that correspond to the enzyme
(if any).
- Pointers to disease(s) associated with a deficiency of the enzyme (if
any).
We believe that the ENZYME data bank will be useful to anybody working
with enzymes and will allow programs to be developed that can help with
the creation of new metabolic pathways.
1.2) Sources of the data
The main source for the data in the ENZYME data bank comes from
recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union
of Biochemistry (NC-IUB) [1,2,3,4]. A minor part of the data has been
extracted from the literature.
[1] Enzyme Nomenclature, NC-IUB, Academic Press, New-York, (1984).
[2] Supplement 1: corrections and additions.
Eur. J. Biochem. 157:1-26(1986).
[3] Supplement 2: corrections and additions.
Eur. J. Biochem. 179:489-533(1989).
[4] Supplement 3: corrections and additions.
Eur. J. Biochem. 187:263-281(1990).
