BRENDA (BRaunschweig ENzyme DAtabase)
BRENDA is an electronic information resource that comprises molecular and biochemical information on enzymes that have been classified by the IUBMB. Every classified enzyme is characterized with respect to its catalyzed biochemical reaction. Kinetic properties of the corresponding reactants; i.e., substrates and products are described in detail. BRENDA provides a web-based user interface that allows a convenient and sophisticated access to the data. BRENDA was founded in 1987 at the former German National Research Centre for Biotechnology (now: Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research) in Braunschweig and was originally published as a series of books. From 1996 to 2007, BRENDA was located at the University of Cologne. There, BRENDA developed into a publicly accessible enzyme information system. In 2007, BRENDA returned to Braunschweig. Currently, BRENDA is maintained and further developed at the Department of Bioinformatics and Biochemistry at the TU Braunschweig.
BRENDA contains enzyme-specific data manually extracted from primary scientific literature and additional data derived from automatic information retrieval methods such as text mining.
A major update of the data in BRENDA is performed twice a year. Besides the upgrade of its content, improvements of the user interface are also incorporated into the BRENDA database.
The latest update was performed in July 2011.
