An introduction to metabolic networks and their structural analysis

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 594-617

  Lacroix, Vincent ^a   Cottret, Ludovic ^b,c,d   Thébault, Patricia ^e   Sagot, Marie France ^b,c,d  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Metabolic data; Metabolism; Modeling; Modularity; Network; Topological analysis

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; METABOLIC DATA; MODELING; MODULARITY; NETWORK; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; METABOLISM; SNOW;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

PROTEOME;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 55949089680     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2008.79     Document Type: Article

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