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sesame and rice using seeds of natural variant phenotypes (Laurentin et al. 2008 ;
Mochida et al. 2009a ).
InformationResourcesforMetabolomics
Various information resources related to metabolomics have played a central role
not only in metabolome research but also in synergistic integration of data with
other 'omics' information through a variety of sites; such as the web sites listed
below and their URL are detailed in Table 2.10 .
TAIR
The web site of metabolome resources at TAIR provides a summarized list of web
hyperlinks to resources that facilitate metabolome research around the world, and
other web pages and sites.
KEGG
A set of biological pathway maps is available via the Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes
and Genomes (KEGG), using a popular database for general information on life sci-
ences called the KEGG PATHWAY Database (Kanehisa and Goto 2000 ; Kanehisa
et al. 2008 ).
PMN
The Plant Metabolic Network (PMN) is a collaborative project that aims to build
plant metabolic pathway databases for plants. It contains a number of other impor-
tant web tools described below.
Plant Cyc
PlantCyc, is a comprehensive plant biochemical pathway database that contains in-
formation from available literature, and computational analyses and tools for genes,
enzymes, compounds, reactions and pathways involved in primary and secondary
plant metabolism.