GSMN-TB: A web-based genome-scale network model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolism

Genome Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Beste, Dany J V ^a   Hooper, Tracy ^a   Stewart, Graham ^a   Bonde, Bhushan ^a   Avignone Rossa, Claudio ^a   Bushell, Michael E ^a   Wheeler, Paul ^b   Klamt, Steffen ^c   Kierzek, Andrzej M ^a   McFadden, Johnjoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ISOCITRATE LYASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNET; METABOLITE; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; STEADY STATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERNET; KINETICS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 34548861262     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-5-r89     Document Type: Article

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