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A problem with these wall charts and the KEGG diagrams is that not only do you not know which enzymes or pathways are active in which tissues within a single multi-cellular organism, you don't know which organisms they come from. These pathway charts are actually mosaic pathways, trying to show a summary of metabolism across all domains of life. This can be misleading, in that no one organism contains all parts as displayed.

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KEGG filters for organism, although it's automated and not 100% correct.

There's also a lot that's not on either map, like specialized secondary metabolite synthesis pathways (although kegg has select secondary pathways).

KEGG filters at the MAP or MODULE level, but it merely highlights the enzymes of the mosaic MAP/MODULE that it inferred is present in the organism, rather than display the subset of the network that is actually present.

I agree with you regarding their mutual incompleteness. There's plenty more literature to curate! See my systematic omparison of KEGG and MetaCyc for more details:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665663/

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