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Enzyme (Ec Number) - Description Mapping

I am looking for a tab-delimited text file for enzyme ID and it's description. I have several enzyme ids like this 

1.7.99.1 
1.14.13.39

I would like to retrieve their respective enzyme names as follows. 

1.7.99.1 hydroxylamine reductase
1.14.13.39 nitric-oxide synthase

Please let me know if you know about such a file available for download. Thanks in advance.

enzyme mapping
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updated by Lars Juhl Jensen Lars Juhl Jensen • written by Khader Shameer Khader Shameer

EDIT: None of these databases provides such an index file, but this can be easily obtained parsing the ID and DE records from enzyme.dat file suggested by Lars. Brenda also provides this information with greater detail. All answers are great pointers, I will select best answer as the one with max. votes by tomorrow.

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written by Khader Shameer Khader Shameer

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I would suggest that you download the ENZYME flatfile from ExPASy. It is very easy to parse and provides precisely the information that you ask for.

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written by Lars Juhl Jensen Lars Juhl Jensen

Thanks Lars, ID & DE is the information I am looking for.

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written by Khader Shameer Khader Shameer

Yes, I should have been nice and explicitly said that ;-)

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written by Lars Juhl Jensen Lars Juhl Jensen

BRENDA would probably be a good source (especially for accepted names).

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updated by Neilfws Neilfws • written by Rajarshi Guha Rajarshi Guha

Registering to Brenda was tough. But I got the data finally. Brenda provides different categories of names in a comprehensive way.

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written by Khader Shameer Khader Shameer

try KEGG ftp://ftp.genome.jp/pub/kegg/ligand/enzyme/enzyme

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

Thanks Pierre. I need to get the accepted name from the list of NAME(s). Any idea which one from the list of NAME(s) could be the accepted name ?

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written by Khader Shameer Khader Shameer

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