The Latest Version of the Web-based Plant Metabolic Pathway Viewer, Kazusa Plant Pathway Viewer (Kappa Viewer)

Abstract

Comprehensive analyses of plant transcripts and metabolites with DNA array technology and chromatographic separation techniques coupled to mass spectrometry such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-TOF-MS), respectively, produce a vast amount of quantitative data. It is crucial to have computational tools to mine meaningful data from huge databases of transcriptome and metabolome. Thus, we have been developing the web-based plant metabolic pathway viewer, Kazusa Plant Pathway Viewer (Kappa Viewer) for displaying transcript and/or metabolite data on plant metabolic pathway maps. We prepared 140 metabolic pathway maps for covering major metabolism of Arabidopsis thaliana. We will introduce the latest version of Kappa Viewer that has summarized indicator map for over-viewing the whole changes of transcripts and metabolites as a new function.