Introduction

BioPath was motivated by the famous Boehringer wall chart "Biochemical Pathways". This chart gives a condensed view to the biochemical knowledge and represents biochemical pathways and regulation. It is well recognized by students and researchers, and is widely distributed. The chart is a hardcopy. It cannot grow with the enormous expansion of the scientific knowledge in biochemistry and molecular biology. And it cannot give dynamic views to a specific problem and extract just the data for a single query.

BioPath is a platform for a convenient electronic access to the biochemical knowledge. It provides information from different views and in distinct levels of detail. BioPath provides powerful search mechanisms for substances and reaction networks, it gives access to different types of information on enzymes, reactions and metabolism and automatically computes visual representations of complex reactions nets. BioPath is easy to use and can be updated and extended.

Current activities are the improvement and adaptation of the major components of BioPath.

References

• Michael Forster, Andreas Pick, Marcus Raitner, Falk Schreiber, Franz J. Brandenburg
  The System Architecture of BioPath
  In Silico Biology (2), 2002
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• Falk Schreiber
  High Quality Visualization of Biochemical Pathways in BioPath
  In Silico Biology (2), 2002
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• Franz J. Brandenburg, Michael Forster, Andreas Pick, Marcus Raitner, Falk Schreiber
  BioPath
  In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'01), LNCS 2265, Springer Verlag, 455-456, 2002
• Falk Schreiber
  Visualisierung biochemischer Reaktionsnetze
  Dissertation, Universität Passau, 2001
• Johann Gasteiger, Dietrich Trümbach
  Biochemical Pathways as a Reaction Database
  Keynote lecture, In Proceedings of the German Conference on Bioinformatics, page 121, Logos Verlag, Berlin, 2000
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• Dietrich Trümbach, Johann Gasteiger
  Interaktive biochemische Stoffwechselwege
  In Proceedings of the Workshop Informationssysteme in der Biotechnologie, Workshop der GI-FG 4.0.2, pages 7-8, 2000
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• Dietrich Trümbach, Johann Gasteiger
  Reaction Substructure Search applied to Biochemical Pathways
  Poster Abstract of the German Conference on Bioinformatics, Poster Nr. 46, 2000
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• Falk Schreiber
  Dynamic Visualization of Biochemical Pathways
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovations in Biochemical Visualisation, European Media Laboratory (EML), Heidelberg, 2000
• Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
  Efficient Storage of XML data
  In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Data Engineering, page 198, 2000
• Carl-Christian Kanne, Falk Schreiber, Dietrich Trümbach
  Electronic Biochemical Pathways
  In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'99), 1731 of LNCS, pages 418-419, Springer Verlag, 1999
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• Carl-Christian Kanne, Falk Schreiber, Dietrich Trümbach
  Interactive Biochemical Pathways (Poster)
  In Proceedings of the German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB'99), pages 204-205, 1999
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• Franz J. Brandenburg, Bernhard Gruber, Michael Himsolt, Falk Schreiber
  Automatische Visualisierung biochemischer Information
  In Proceedings of the Workshop Molekulare Bioinformatik, GI Jahrestagung, 24-38, Shaker Verlag, 1998
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• Franz J. Brandenburg, Bernhard Gruber, Michael Himsolt, Falk Schreiber
  Visualization of Biochemical Information
  In Proceedings of the Workshop Modelling and Simulation of Gene and Cell Regulation and Metabolic Pathways, Schloss Dagstuhl, Report No. 215, pages 60-61, 1998

Partners

BioPath has been developed in the research project "Multimediale Weiterentwicklung der Biochemical Pathways", which has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The cooperating project partners are:

	Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Slevogtstr. 3-5  D-69126 Heidelberg
	Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Computer-Chemie-Zentrum und Institut für Organische Chemie Prof. Dr. Johann Gasteiger Nägelsbachstraße 25 D-91052 Erlangen
	Universität Mannheim Lehrstuhl für Praktische Informatik III Professor Dr. Guido Moerkotte B6, 29, Gebäudeteil C Raum: Raum C0.10 D-68131 Mannheim
	Universität Passau Lehrstuhl für Informatik mit Schwerpunkt Theoretische Informatik Professor Dr. Franz J. Brandenburg Innstraße 33 D-94030 Passau