In recent years, more and more attempts are being made to understand biological subjects at a systems level. A major resource for these approaches are biological databases, a variety of which has been designed to store manifold information. The use of these databases is often hampered by the fact that they are designed for special application areas and thus lack universality. Furthermore, the plant research field is often neglected.
To circumvent these problems we have designed Meta-All, a software that allows to store and access information about metabolic pathways, including reaction kinetics, detailed locations, environmental circumstances and taxonomic information.
The Meta-All project is a cooperation of three research groups of IPK Gatersleben.
We provide the Meta-All information system for download and use. Meta-All was originally designed to run on an Oracle Enterprise Edition database, but also runs on the Oracle Express Edition, which can be downloaded at Oracle's Web site free of charge. Furthermore, we provide the possibility to test our demo instance, which can be accessed via http://meta-all.bic-gh.de. Please log in as guest using the password meta-all.
