KEGG Mapper v5.2 released July 1, 2024

• The "MWsearch" tool is introduced as a variant of the "Search" tool for use in mass spectrometry data analysis.

KEGG Mapper v5.1 released October 1, 2023

• The final steps of KEGG pathway mapping (search and color) and Brite mapping are now processed on the client-side of pathway map viewer and Brite hierarchy viewer.

KEGG Mapper v5.0 released July 1, 2021

• The KEGG Mapper tools are reorganized into: "Reconstruct", "Search", "Color" and "Join".
• The "Join" tool now first searches all available Brite files in a similar way to the other tools.
• The mapping results are linked to the new pathway map and Brite hierarchy viewers.

KEGG Mapper v4.3 released October 1, 2020

• The Pathway tab of the "Reconstruct Pathway" result page contains module validation results (also available in the Module tab) in the side panel.
• In addition, the module link mode is available for all global and overview maps, thus eliminating the Module map tab in the result page.

KEGG Mapper v4.2 released June 1, 2020

• "Reconstruct Pathway" contains the result of mapping against the global metabolic pathway in the module mode.

KEGG Mapper v4.1 released August 1, 2019

• "Search Pathway" and "Search&Color Pathway" are improved to distinguish reference and organism-specific pathways.
• "Same as" option is implemented in "Search Pathway".

KEGG Mapper v4.0 released July 1, 2019

• The three main tools of "Reconstruct Pathway", "Search Pathway" and "Search&Color Pathway" now perform mapping against multiple databases at a time.
• Brite table is included in the target databases for "Reconstruct Pathway".

KEGG Mapper v3.2 released January 1, 2019

• "Search Network" tool is released.

KEGG Mapper v3.1 released October 1, 2017

• "Draw Phylogram" tool is released.

KEGG Mapper v3.0 released September 1, 2017

• "Color Pathway" is updated to allow 3D bar graph view with Javascript and CSS 3D. "Color Pathway WebGL" is discontinued.

KEGG Mapper v2.8 released October 20, 2016

• "Convert ID" tool is included in KEGG Mapper.

KEGG Mapper v2.7 released September 1, 2016

• "Search Disease" tool is released.

KEGG Mapper v2.6 released April 1, 2016

• "Join Brite Table" tool is released.

KEGG Mapper v2.5 released December 1, 2014

• "Annotate Sequence" tool is released.

KEGG Mapper v2.4 released November 4, 2014

• "Reconstruct Brite" tool has been updated to allow better integration with BlastKOALA and KAAS.

KEGG Mapper v2.3 released November 4, 2014

• Another variant of "Map Taxonomy" tool is implemented in the BlastKOALA service to examine organism groups of query genomes/metagenomes.

KEGG Mapper v2.2 released July 1, 2014

• "Taxonomy Checker" is introduced in the KEGG Annotation page as a variant of "Map Taxonomy" tool.

KEGG Mapper v2.1 released April 1, 2014

• "Color Pathway 3D" is renamed to "Color Pathway WebGL" with updated features.

KEGG Mapper v2.0 released January 1, 2014

• "Map taxonomy" is introduced to examine the organism groups assigned to a KEGG Orthology group (K number), a KEGG module (M number) or a definition of KEGG module (logical expression of K and M numbers).

KEGG Mapper v1.6 released October 1, 2013

• "Reconstruct module" allows distinction of complete modules, as well as incomplete modules with only one or two blocks missing.

KEGG Mapper v1.6 released May 1, 2013

• For selecting a pathway/brite/module type, the text box for entering a prefix code is used instead of the pulldown menu.

KEGG Mapper v1.5 released June 1, 2012

• "Reconstruct Pathway/Brite" tools accept multiple genomes for comparison or combination.

KEGG Mapper v1.4 released April 1, 2012

• "Reconstruct Pathway/Brite/Module" tools are made available.
• "Color Pathway 3D" tool is released directly linking to KEGG Atlas 3D viewer.

KEGG Mapper v1.3 released July 1, 2011

• "Color Pathway" accepts numerical data, which can be displayed either by gradation or by 3D representation.

KEGG Mapper v1.2 released September 20, 2011

• "Search Module" is released.

KEGG Mapper v1.1 released June 1, 2011

• "Color Pathway" is renamed to "Search&Color Pathway".
• "Color Brite" is renamed to "Search&Color Brite".
• New "Color Pathway" is released.

KEGG Mapper v1.0 released September 1, 2010

• "Join Brite" tool is included in the existing collection of KEGG pathway mapping and BRITE mapping tools.