Investigating metabolite essentiality through genome-scale analysis of Escherichia coli production capabilities
Author(s) -
Marcin Imieliński,
Călin Belta,
Ádám Halász,
Harvey Rubin
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti245
Subject(s) - escherichia coli , metabolite , computational biology , scale (ratio) , genome , production (economics) , biology , computer science , genetics , biochemistry , gene , geography , macroeconomics , economics , cartography
A phenotype mechanism is classically derived through the study of a set of mutants and comparison of their biochemical capabilities. One method of comparing mutant capabilities is to characterize producible and knocked out metabolites. However such an effect is difficult to manually assess, especially for a large biochemical network and a complex media. Current algorithmic approaches towards analyzing metabolic networks either do not address this specific property or are computationally infeasible on the genome-scale.
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