The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (UM-BBD) contains information on compounds, enzymes, reactions and microorganism entries. It includes a Biochemical Periodic Table (UM-BPT) and a rule-based Pathway Prediction System (UM-PPS) that predicts plausible pathways for microbial degradation of organic compounds. UM-BBD compound data are contributed to PubChem and ChemSpider, the public chemical databases.
The University of Minnesota Pathway Prediction System (UM-PPS) is a web tool that recognizes functional groups in organic compounds that are potential targets of microbial catabolic reactions and predicts transformations of these groups based on biotransformation rules. Multi-level predictions are made.