Metabolic pathway analysis: Basic concepts and scientific applications in the post-genomic era

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 296-303

  Schilling, Christophe H ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^b   Palsson, Bernhard O ^a   Heinrich, Reinhart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BIOENGINEERING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYOXYLATE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM;

ALGEBRA; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; STOICHIOMETRY;

GENOME ANNOTATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC PATHWAY ANALYSIS; POST GENOMIC ERA;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033136109     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp990048k     Document Type: Article

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