Motivation: The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/ Biodegradation Databa
se (UM-BBD) is a website providing information and dynamic links for microb
ial metabolic pathways, enzyme reactions, and their substrates and products
. The Compound, Organism, Reaction and Enzyme (CORE) object-oriented databa
se management system was developed to contain and serve this information.
Results: CORE was developed using Java, an object-oriented programming lang
uage, and PSE persistent object classes from Object Design, Inc. CORE dynam
ically generates descriptive web pages for reactions, compounds and enzymes
, and reconstructs ad hoc pathway maps starting from any UM-BBD reaction.