Extensive, Highly Curated Data
BioCyc integrates genome data with a comprehensive body of additional data including metabolic reconstructions, regulatory networks, protein features, orthologs, gene essentiality, and atom mappings.
Genome Browser image
A Vast Set of Bioinformatics Tools
Browsers for genomes, metabolic networks, and regulatory networks. Transcriptomics and metabolomics data analysis, comparative analysis, and metabolic route search. Sequence search and alignment.
 
Explore Metabolic Maps for Thousands of Organisms
The Cellular Overview enables you to browse through zoomable metabolic map diagrams that are customized to each BioCyc organism.
Cellular Overview image generated by Pathway Tools.
Algae on your iPhone and iPad
Have you ever wanted to quickly find out what is known about a gene, protein or pathway that was just mentioned in a talk or on a poster? Download the free BioCyc iPhone app to browse BioCyc on the go! Try the iPad version as well.
BioCyc iOS App for iPhone/iPad
RouteSearch: Search for Paths Through the Metabolic Network
Search for lowest-cost paths through the metabolic network of the selected organism.
Metabolic Reconstruction from Sequenced Genomes
Install SRI's Pathway Tools software (free to academics) to predict metabolic pathways for sequenced genomes, generate metabolic models.
Gene Expression Data Analysis
Multiple tools are available in this website for analysis of gene expression data.
Cellular Overview Omics Viewer image generated by Pathway Tools.
Comparative Genome Analysis
Multiple comparative analysis tools are available in this website.
Multi-organism Genome Browser image generated by Pathway Tools.
Search Databases by Organism Properties
BioCyc contains data on phenotypic properties of organisms, such as human-microbiome body site, aerobicity, and temperature range.
Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay
The BioCyc Database Collection
Tier 1 databases such as EcoCyc are the most highly curated. BioCyc databases are computationally derived from MetaCyc.
Request Addition of New Genome to BioCycBioCyc Database Collection
The Omics Dashboard: A New View of Omics Data
Visualize omics data as a set of graphs hierarchically organized by functional category. Drill down for more detail in areas of interest.
Cellular Dashboard image generated by Pathway Tools.
Algal Pathway/Genome Databases
Image of Thalassiosira pseudonana organism
This website contains 13 Algal genomes and associated metabolic pathways. This website is part of the larger BioCyc collection of thousands of Pathway/Genome Databases for sequenced genomes. Click on the "Change Current Database" button (above) to explore the available databases.
This site includes extensive retrieval, visualization and analysis tools, including a Genome browser and a metabolic map diagram. There are tools for analysis of gene expression, metabolomics and ChIP-chip data. You can search and align sequences for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and other genomes and perform comparative analysis. You can store groups of genes and pathways into a SmartTable, and then browse, analyze and share with other users.
What people are saying
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"BsubCyc is a tool of the utmost value."
Penn StatePaul Babitzke
Prof. of Biochemistry
& Molecular Biology
"My lab uses these resources on a daily basis."
Patricia Kiley,
Professor and Chair,
Dep't. of Biomolecular Chemistry
"We rely on BioCyc's Gene Pages and Overview Diagrams almost daily."
University of MinnesotaArkady Khodursky
Assoc. Prof. Biochemistry
"We use BioCyc and MetaCyc extensively to investigate the metabolic and regulatory processes of organisms we study."
William Cannon, Team Lead
Computational Biology
"BioCyc is the go-to resource of knowledge and tools for Ginkgo scientists."
Ginkgo Bioworks"BioCyc is a tremendous resource for pathway analysis in metabolomics."
University of GeorgiaArt Edison, Dept of Genetics
"We make extensive use of the BioCyc full metabolic network diagram for omics data analysis."
Great Lakes BioenergyTimothy J. Donohue, Director
"I have not found another database that has a better interface than BioCyc."
University of MichiganGary B. Huffnagle, Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
Learning Library
Tutorial Videos
Tutorial #1: Introduction to BioCyc
Tutorial #2: Introduction to SmartTables
Tutorial #3: Zoomable Metabolic Map, Comparative Tools, Regulatory Network
Tutorial #4: Omics Data Analysis
Tutorial #5: Pathway Collages
Tutorial #6: Creating a Pathway/Genome Database
- Part 1A: Introduction to Database Building and Pathologic (14:04)
- Part 1B: Building a Database: Detailed Pathologic Example (23:53)
- Part 2A: General Editing Strategies (8:00)
- Part 2B: Creating and Editing Reactions and Compounds (17:32)
- Part 2C: Updating Proteins, Citations, GO Terms, and Enzymatic Reactions (26:10)
- Part 2D: Making and Editing Pathways (9:42)