A general definition of metabolic pathways useful for systematic organization and analysis of complex metabolic networks

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 326-332

  Schuster, Stefan ^a   Fell, David A ^b   Dandekar, Thomas ^a,c  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elementary modes; Functional genomics; Metabolic networks; Stochiometric network analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL METABOLISM; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLYCOLYSIS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GLYCOLYSIS; METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOSACCHARIDES; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY;

EID: 0034064689     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/73786     Document Type: Article

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