A note on the complexity of finding and enumerating elementary modes

BioSystems

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 210-214

  Acuña, Vicente ^a,b   Marchetti Spaccamela, Alberto ^c   Sagot, Marie France ^a,b   Stougie, Leen ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Elementary modes; Enumeration; Metabolic networks

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; METABOLISM;

ARTICLE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; SIMULATION; STOICHIOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77649270909     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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