What is Reactome?
Reactome is a free, manually curated knowledge base that provides a user-friendly platform to access and analyse information on molecular mechanisms of reactions and pathways. It provides highly detailed pathway diagrams of molecular processes and descriptions, available via the Reactome website and to download in standard formats such as BioPax and SBML. Figure 1 shows the main pages of the website.

Reactions
Reactome defines a reaction as any molecular event; including binding, phosphorylation, biochemical catalysis, molecular transport and spontaneous molecular events. These reactions can involve any biological molecule, but are typically between proteins and small molecules (chemical compounds).