RHEA - Reaction status

Reactions in Rhea are assigned a status:

No status (NO)
The initial state of a reaction, tipically from parsing.
Preliminary (PM)
For unclear reactions missing participants. Note that these will be publicly visible, as they are needed in some pathways resources.
Pending (PE)
The reaction is awaiting some external event (ChEBI entity check, for example).
Approved (OK)
The reaction has been validated, which means it can be made public.
Obsolete (OB)
The reaction - once valid and used - has been replaced by other.
Rejected (RE)
The reaction never got the accepted status, but was shown to not be applicable.

Only approved, obsolete and preliminary reactions should be publicly visible. Though it is possible to add, modify and remove participants in any reaction, this is strongly discouraged for the two aforementioned statuses.

Please refer also to the javadocs for updated documentation on status.

Status propagation

Some statuses propagate from one reaction to other reactions in the same family:

  • OK: propagates from non-directional reactions (UN, BI) to every other reaction in the family.
  • OB: propagates from directional reactions (LR, RL) to non-directional ones.