Pathway data captures our understanding of biological processes, but its rapid growth necessitates development of databases and computational tools to aid interpretation.
However, the current fragmentation of pathway information across many databases with incompatible formats presents barriers to its effective use.
BioPAX solves this problem by making pathway data substantially easier to collect, index, interpret and share.
BioPAX can represent metabolic and signaling pathways, molecular and genetic interactions and gene regulation networks.
Thus, large amounts of pathway data are available in a computable form to support visualization, analysis and biological discovery.