Improving metabolic flux estimation via evolutionary optimization for convex solution space
Author(s) -
Jiusheng Chen,
Haoran Zheng,
Haiyan Liu,
Niu Junqing,
Jianping Liu,
Tie Shen,
Bin Rui,
Yunyu Shi
Publication year - 2007
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/btm050
Subject(s) - regular polygon , mathematical optimization , space (punctuation) , convex optimization , flux (metallurgy) , computer science , estimation , mathematics , materials science , geometry , economics , management , metallurgy , operating system
Flux estimation by using (13) C-labeling pattern information of metabolites is currently the only method that can give accurate, detailed quantification of all intracellular fluxes in the central metabolism of a microorganism. In essence, it corresponds to a constrained optimization problem which minimizes a weighted distance between measured and simulated results. Characteristics, such as existence of multiple local minima, non-linear and non-differentiable make this problem a special difficulty.
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