KEGG Database Entry Format
The KEGG database is developed and maintained internally in a relational database, but it is distributed in the flat-file format where the database is considered as a collection of entries.
This document describes the database entry field names in the web page and the corresponding flat file.
It also summarizes the fields searched by
DBGET.
Database Entry Fields
The content of each field is described in the link from "Web page".
PATHWAY
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Description | DESCRIPTION |
Class | CLASS |
Pathway map | PATHWAY_MAP |
Module | MODULE |
Network | NETWORK |
Element | ELEMENT |
Disease | DISEASE |
Drug | DRUG |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Organism | ORGANISM |
Orthology | ORTHOLOGY |
Gene | GENE |
Enzyme | ENZYME |
Reaction | REACTION |
Compound | COMPOUND |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
Related pathway | REL_PATHWAY |
KO pathway | KO_PATHWAY |
|
BRITE
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Class | CLASS |
Hierarchy Table | HIERARCHY TABLE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
|
MODULE
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY | (for M entry) |
Name | NAME |
Definition | DEFINITION |
Diagram | - |
Orthology | ORTHOLOGY |
Class | CLASS |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Brite | BRITE |
Reaction | REACTION |
Compound | COMPOUND |
RModule | RMODULE |
Comment | COMMENT |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
|
Entry | ENTRY | (for RM enty) |
Name | NAME |
Definition | DEFINITION |
Class | CLASS |
GROUP | Group |
MODULE | Module |
|
KO
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Symbol | SYMBOL |
Name | NAME |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Module | MODULE |
Network | NETWORK |
Element | ELEMENT |
Disease | DISEASE |
Brite | BRITE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Genes | GENES |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
Sequence | SEQUENCE |
|
GENES
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Symbol | SYMBOL |
Name | NAME |
KO | ORTHOLOGY |
Organism Virus | ORGANISM VIRUS |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Module | MODULE |
Network | NETWORK |
Element | ELEMENT |
Disease | DISEASE |
Drug target | DRUG_TARGET |
Brite | BRITE |
SSDB | - |
Motif | MOTIF |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Position | POSITION |
AA seq | AASEQ |
NT seq | NTSEQ |
|
GENOME
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY | (for T entry) |
Org code | ORG_CODE |
Name | NAME |
Category | CATEGORY |
Annotation | ANNOTATION |
Taxonomy | TAXONOMY |
Lineage | LINEAGE |
Data source | DATA_SOURCE |
Original DB | ORIGINAL_DB |
Keywords | KEYWORDS |
Disease | DISEASE |
Comment | COMMENT |
Chromosome | CHROMOSOME |
Plasmid | PLASMID |
Statistics | STATISTICS |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
|
Entry | ENTRY | (for T4 entry) |
Name | NAME |
Vtax | VTAX |
Taxonomy | TAXONOMY |
Lineage | LINEAGE |
Sequence | SEQUENCE |
Disease | DISEASE |
Host | HOST |
Reservoir | RESERVOIR |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
|
Entry | ENTRY | (for Vtax entry) |
Name | NAME |
Gn | GN |
Taxonomy | TAXONOMY |
Lineage | LINEAGE |
Sequence | SEQUENCE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Gene | GENE |
Pept | PEPT |
|
COMPOUND
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Formula | FORMULA |
Exact mass | EXACT_MASS |
Mol weight | MOL_WEIGHT |
Structure | (gif image) |
Sequence | SEQUENCE |
Remark | REMARK |
Comment | COMMENT |
Reaction | REACTION |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Module | MODULE |
Enzyme | ENZYME |
Brite | BRITE |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
KCF data | ATOM / BOND / BRACKET |
|
GLYCAN
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Composition | COMPOSITION |
Mass | MASS |
Structure | (gif image) |
Remark | REMARK |
Comment | COMMENT |
Reaction | REACTION |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Module | MODULE |
Enzyme | ENZYME |
Orthology | ORTHOLOGY |
Brite | BRITE |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
KCF data | NODE / EDGE / BRACKET |
|
REACTION
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Definition | DEFINITION |
Equation | EQUATION |
(blank) | (gif image) |
Remark | REMARK |
Comment | COMMENT |
Reaction class | RCLASS |
Enzyme | ENZYME |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Orthology | ORTHOLOGY |
Reference | REFERENCE |
|
RCLASS
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Definition | DEFINITION |
(blank) | (gif image) |
Reactant pair | RPAIR |
Related class | - |
Reaction | REACTION |
Enzyme | ENZYME |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Orthology | ORTHOLOGY |
|
ENZYME
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Class | CLASS |
Sysname | SYSNAME |
Reaction(IUBMB) | REACTION |
Reaction(KEGG) | ALL_REAC |
Substrate | SUBSTRATE |
Product | PRODUCT |
Comment | COMMENT |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Orthology | ORTHOLOGY |
Genes | GENES |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
Sequence | SEQUENCE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
|
NETWORK
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY | (for N entry) |
Name | NAME |
Definition | DEFINITION |
Expanded | EXPANDED |
Class | CLASS |
Type | TYPE |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Disease | DISEASE |
Gene | GENE |
Variant | VARIANT |
Perturbant | PERTURBANT |
Metabolite | METABOLITE |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
|
Entry | ENTRY | (for nt entry) |
Name | NAME |
Category | CATEGORY |
Map | MAP |
Disease | DISEASE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Member | MEMBER |
|
VARIANT
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Gene | GENE |
Organism | ORGANISM |
Variation | VARIATION |
Network | NETWORK |
Drug target | DRUG_TARGET |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
|
DISEASE
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Description | DESCRIPTION |
Category | CATEGORY |
Brite | BRITE |
Disease pathway | DIS_PATHWAY |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Network | NETWORK |
Gene | GENE |
Pathogen | PATHOGEN |
Drug | DRUG |
Comment | COMMENT |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
Reference | REFERENCE |
Authors | AUTHORS |
Title | TITLE |
Journal | JOURNAL |
|
DRUG
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Abbr | ABBR |
Product | PRODUCT |
Formula | FORMULA |
Exact mass | EXACT_MASS |
Mol weight | MOL_WEIGHT |
Structure | (gif image) |
Simcomp | - |
Component | COMPONENT |
Sequence | SEQUENCE |
Type | TYPE |
Source | SOURCE |
Class | CLASS |
Remark | REMARK |
Efficacy | EFFICACY |
Disease | DISEASE |
Type | TYPE |
Comment | COMMENT |
Target | TARGET |
Network | NETWORK |
Pathway | PATHWAY |
Metabolism | METABOLISM |
Interaction | INTERACTION |
Biosynthesis | SYN_MAP |
Structure map | STR_MAP |
Other map | OTHER_MAP |
Brite | BRITE |
Other DBs | DBLINKS |
KCF data | ATOM / BOND / BRACKET |
|
DGROUP
Web page | Flat file |
|
Entry | ENTRY |
Name | NAME |
Abbr | ABBR |
Stem | STEM |
Type | TYPE |
Structure | (gif image) |
Member | MEMBER |
Class | CLASS |
Remark | REMARK |
Comment | COMMENT |
|
DBGET Search Fields
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.
The keyword search is performed against the following fields.
Database name |
Abbre- viation |
Search fields |
kegg |
pathway |
path |
ENTRY, NAME |
brite |
br |
ENTRY, NAME |
module |
md |
ENTRY, NAME |
orthology |
ko |
ENTRY, SYMBOL, NAME |
genes |
<org> |
ENTRY, SYMBOL, NAME, KO |
genome |
gn |
ENTRY, ORG_CODE, NAME |
compound |
cpd |
ENTRY, NAME |
glycan |
gl |
ENTRY, NAME, COMPOSITION |
reaction |
rn |
ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION |
rclass |
rc |
ENTRY, NAME, DEFINITION |
enzyme |
ec |
ENTRY, NAME |
network |
ne |
ENTRY, NAME |
variant |
hsa_var |
ENTRY, NAME |
disease |
ds |
ENTRY, NAME |
drug |
dr |
ENTRY, NAME |
dgroup |
dg |
ENTRY, NAME |
Last updated: January 1, 2024
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