Let's take EC 1.1.1.27 as an example. Currently, the reaction this enzyme
catalyzes is stored in IntEnz as a plain String:
(<stereo>S</stereo>)-lactate + NAD<smallsup>+</smallsup> = pyruvate + NADH + H<smallsup>+</smallsup>
It could have been stored as:
NAD<smallsup>+</smallsup> + (<stereo>S</stereo>)-lactate = pyruvate + NADH + H<smallsup>+</smallsup>
or any other possible combination. It would always be the same reaction
but for a computer it wouldn't.
So we intend to map every reaction participant to ChEBI so that to use
a public stable identifier:
This is how data would be stored:
Note: only data for (S)-lactate is shown for tables
REACTION_PARTICIPANTS and COMPOUND_DATA. Current implementation in blue,
designed future implementation in green.