The metaSHARK web server offers users an intuitive, fully interactive way to explore the KEGG metabolic network via a WWW browser.

Metabolic reconstruction information for specific organisms, produced by our automated SHARKhunt tool or from other programs or genome annotations, may be uploaded to the website and overlaid on the generic network.

Additional data from gene expression experiments can also be incorporated, allowing the visualisation of differential gene expression in the context of the predicted metabolic network.

metaSHARK is compatible with any web browser with a Java plugin (v1.4.2+). For full functionality, please ensure that your browser's settings will allow cookies and popup windows for this site.


The SHARKhunt software is available to download, enabling Linux, Mac OS X and Windows users to analyse DNA data and upload results to this website for visualisation.

Please bookmark this page, as the database server may change URL at a later date.

Update 2/4/08: SHARKhunt has been upgraded to the more recent PRIAM 2006 enzyme profiles, and now runs on any Linux, Windows or Mac OSX system.