KEGG LIGAND contains our knowledge on the universe of chemical substances and reactions that are relevant to life.
It is a composite database consisting of COMPOUND, GLYCAN, REACTION, RPAIR, RCLASS, and ENZYME databases, whose entries are identified by C, G, R, RP, RC, and EC numbers, respectively.
ENZYME is derived from the IUBMB/IUPAC Enzyme Nomenclature, but the others are internally developed and maintained.
isomorphic subgraph search -- the query compound is fully matched to a portion of the database compound (substructure match) or a portion of the query compound is fully matched to the database compound (superstructure match)
Search similar glycan structures
KCaM: local or global search for matching tree structures
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PathComp: generate possible reaction paths from an enzyme list
LIGAND Relational Database
The primary database of KEGG LIGAND is a relational database with the KegDraw interface, which is used to generated the secondary (flat file) database for DBGET.
A read-only copy of the LIGAND relational database is made publicly accessible.