Reconstruction of biochemical networks in microorganisms

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-143

  Feist, Adam M ^a   Herrgård, Markus J ^a,b   Thiele, Ines ^a   Reed, Jennie L ^c   Palsson, Bernhard Ø ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TARGET ORGANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLOMICS;

EID: 58549108388     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1949     Document Type: Review

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