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Designing new systematic experiments<br />

The current knowledge of metabolic pathways, especially on the intermediary<br />

metabolism, is already well represented in KEGG. The next question is how to<br />

organize divergent sets of regulatory pathways. We are collecting pathway data<br />

mostly from review articles on various aspects of cellular functions, but the existing<br />

literature is the result of the traditional reductionistic approach in molecular biology,<br />

which probably represents only a fragmentary portion of actual regulatory pathways<br />

in the cell. It is therefore necessary to design new systematic experiments, for<br />

example, for protein-protein interactions by yeast two-hybrid systems <strong>and</strong> for genegene<br />

interactions by observing gene expression profiles on microarrays. KEGG will<br />

provide reference data sets <strong>and</strong> computational technologies to uncover underlying<br />

gene regulatory networks in such experimental data.<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

The KEGG project has been supported by the Human Genome Program of the<br />

Ministry of Education, Science, Sports <strong>and</strong> Culture in Japan.<br />

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