PAZy 数据库扩展至 450 多个经实验验证的塑料活性酶并开放 REST API
PAZy: an expanded and actively maintained database of experimentally validated plastic-active enzymes
PAZy 塑料活性酶数据库发布扩展版本，收录超过 450 个经实验验证能作用于合成或生物基塑料的酶，并补充更详细的元数据与更广的底物覆盖。新版改为关系型数据库，引入大语言模型辅助整理活性数据，网页界面支持按蛋白或塑料底物浏览，并提供公开 REST API 供程序化调用。该资源用于区分实验验证的塑料活性酶与仅计算预测的候选，可免费访问 https://www.pazy.eu。
来源：Nucleic Acids Research · doi.org
The Plastics-Active Enzyme Database (PAZy) is a manually curated resource for enzymes experimentally shown to act on synthetic or bio-based plastics. It was developed to distinguish experimentally verified plastics-active enzymes from computationally predicted or insufficiently supported candidates. Here, we present an expanded version of PAZy, implemented as a relational database containing >450 plastics-active enzymes with more detailed metadata, broader substrate coverage, and large language model-assisted curation of activity data. The redesigned web interface now enables browsing by protein or plastic substrate, detailed inspections of individual protein entries as well as programmatic access through a public representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API). This functionality enables scientists to freely implement PAZy into their own research workflows. By using evidence-based manual curation, PAZy provides a high-confidence resource for both comparative analyses and enzyme discovery in the rapidly growing field of enzymatic plastic degradation. PAZy is freely available at https://www.pazy.eu.