Capturing the essence of a metabolic network: A flux balance analysis approach

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 445-452

  Murabito, Ettore ^a,b   Simeonidis, Evangelos ^a,b   Smallbone, Kieran ^a   Swinton, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternate optimal patterns; Alternate optimal solutions; Minimal effort principle; Minimal optimal subnetwork; Mixed integer linear programming problem

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; LINEAR PROGRAMING; METABOLISM; OPTIMIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CARBON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 69449096938     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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