Extract enzyme information for a list of compound names in KEGG

Question

[stephanie.alexandra.ross]

Hi All,

I have a list of compounds names and somehow I would like to retrieve the EC codes of its enzymes using KEGG. For instance lets say that I've two compounds (ie glycine and glucose). I would like to build a table that would give me the Compound ID code and the EC code of its enzymes, which is found on the KEGG webpage for each compound.

Compound Name   Compound ID   EC code
Glycine         C00037        1.4.1.1         1.4.1.10        1.4.2.1         1.4.3.3
Glucose         C00031        1.1.1.118       1.1.1.119       1.1.1.121       1.1.1.359

Thanks!

Answer 1

[5heikki]

If you have compound id it's as simple as

http://rest.kegg.jp/link/ec/C00037

You can also (I'm not sure of the syntax to get just the top hit)

http://rest.kegg.jp/find/compound/Glycine