chem-bla-ics

If you want to map experimental data to (digital) biological pathways, you need to know what measured datum matches which metabolite in the pathways (that also applies to transcriptomics and proteomics data, of course). However, if a pathways does not have a single database from which identifiers are used, or your analysis platform outputs data with CAS registry numbers, then you need something like identifier mapping. In Maastricht we use BridgeDb for that, and I develop the metabolite identifier mapping databases, which provide the mapping data to BridgeDb, which performs the mapping.

However, identifier mapping for metabolites is non-trivial, and I won't got into details in this post.