Advances in flux balance analysis

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 491-496

  Kauffman, Kenneth J ^a   Prakash, Purusharth ^a   Edwards, Jeremy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PRODUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; STOICHIOMETRY; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METHYLOBACTERIUM; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0142122303     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2003.08.001     Document Type: Review

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