ExplorEnz: Information The Enzyme Database


 

About ExplorEnz — The Enzyme Database

ExplorEnz is an open-access, manually curated and peer-reviewed enzyme database of the IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature List.

Recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on the Nomenclature and Classification of Enzymes by the Reactions they Catalyse


It is the definitive list, produced by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB), in consultation with the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN).

Enzyme entries are authorized on behalf of NC-IUBMB by a subcommitee comprising Kristian Axelsen, Ron Caspi, Ture Damhus, Shinya Fushinobu, Julia Hauenstein, Antje Jäde, Ingrid Keseler, Masaaki Kotera, Andrew McDonald, Gerry Moss, Ida Schomburg and Keith Tipton.

The data are used by many other databases and each entry is cross-referenced to a selected number of these. There are currently over 8100 entries, and proposed additions and amendments to the Enzyme Nomenclature list are made available on this site for public review for a period of 4 weeks before their incorporation into the list.

ExplorEnz is designed, developed and maintained for the IUBMB by Andrew McDonald (School of Biochemistry & Immunology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland).

We are grateful to Science Foundation Ireland (Grant no: SFI 02/IN.1/B043-Tipton) for funding the initial development of ExplorEnz.

Financial support from the IUBMB and FEBS for the maintenance of ExplorEnz during 2024 is gratefully acknowledged.

The current ExplorEnz release is 2023.12.