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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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