OptFlux: An open-source software platform for in silico metabolic engineering

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rocha, Isabel ^a   Maia, Paulo ^a   Evangelista, Pedro ^a   Vilaça, Paulo ^a   Soares, Simão ^a   Pinto, José P ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^b   Patil, Kiran R ^c   Ferreira, Eugénio C ^a   Rocha, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950960250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-4-45     Document Type: Article

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