Datasets

Rhea

An expert curated resource of biochemical reactions designed for the annotation of enzymes and genome-scale metabolic networks and models.

Dataset specifications

Tags
Protein Enzyme
Provenance Original
Registration Added by RDF portal
Data provider
  • SIB and EMBL-EBI
Creator
  • Anne MorgatINRIA Grenoble Rhˆone-Alpes
  • Thierry LombardotSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Kristian B. AxelsenSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Lucila AimoSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Anne NiknejadVital-IT, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Nevila Hyka-NouspikelSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Elisabeth CoudertSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Monica PozzatoSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Marco PagniVital-IT, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Sébastien MorettiDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, Evolutionary Bioinformatics group,University of Lausanne
  • Steven RosanoffEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, EuropeanBioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
  • Joseph OnwubikoEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, EuropeanBioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
  • Lydie BougueleretSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Ioannis XenariosUniversity of Geneva, Department of Biochemistr
  • Nicole RedaschiSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Alan BridgeSwiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Issued 2026-01-28
Licenses
  • Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Version Rhea release 140
Download https://rdfportal.org/download/rhea
SPARQL Endpoint https://rdfportal.org/sib/sparql

Dataset statistics

Triples
1962186
Subjects
211004
Properties
59
Objects
596057
Classes
2

SPARQL example queries

Example 1

Run on Endpoint
# Endpoint: https://sparql.rhea-db.org/sparql
# Description: Select all Rhea reactions (unspecified direction), with "Approved" status
# Parameter: status: (example: rhea:Approved)

PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX rhea: <http://rdf.rhea-db.org/>

SELECT ?Reaction ?status ?equation
WHERE {
    VALUES ?status { rhea:Approved }
    ?Reaction a rdfs:Class ;
        rhea:status ?status ;
        rhea:equation ?equation .
}
LIMIT 100

Example 2

Run on Endpoint
# Endpoint: https://sparql.rhea-db.org/sparql
# Description: Select all approved reactions using CHEBI:29985 (L-glutamate) as small molecule participant
# Parameter: sub_class_of: (example: rhea:Reaction)
#            status: (example: rhea:Approved)
#            chebi: (example: obo:CHEBI_29985)

PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX rhea: <http://rdf.rhea-db.org/>
PREFIX obo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/>

SELECT ?Reaction ?status ?equation ?chebi
WHERE {
    VALUES ?status { rhea:Approved }
    VALUES ?chebi { obo:CHEBI_29985 }
    ?Reaction a rdfs:Class ;
        rhea:status ?status ;
        rhea:equation ?equation ;
        rhea:compound / rhea:chebi ?chebi .
}
LIMIT 100

Schema diagram

Schema diagram for rhea
Schema diagram for rhea