Clemens Wrzodek, Andreas Dräger, and Andreas Zell

Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen (ZBIT), Germany

Start KEGGtranslator:
You may start KEGGtranslator directly here as Java webstart application on almost every operating system, or you can download a stand-alone version as runnable JAR file in our downloads section.

Short description:
Nowadays, the KEGG PATHWAY database provides a widely used service for pathway-based information. It contains manually drawn pathway maps with information about the genes, reactions and relations contained therein. To store these pathways, KEGG uses an own XML-format (called “KGML”). Parsers and translators are needed to process the pathway maps for usage in other applications and algorithms.
We have developed KEGGtranslator, which is an easy-to-use stand-alone application that can visualize and convert KGML formatted XML-files into multiple output formats. Unlike other translators, KEGGtranslator supports a plethora of output formats, is able to augment the information in translated documents (e.g., MIRIAM annotations) beyond the scope of the KGML document, and amends missing components to fragmentary reactions within the pathway to allow simulations on those. KEGGtranslator converts KEGG files (KGML formatted XML-files) to SBML, BioPAX, SIF, SBGN, SBML-qual, GML, GraphML, JPG, GIF, LaTeX, etc.
KEGG pathways can be obtained from within the application.