FASIMU: Flexible software for flux-balance computation series in large metabolic networks

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hoppe, Andreas ^a   Hoffmann, Sabrina ^a   Gerasch, Andreas ^b   Gille, Christoph ^a   Holzhütter, Hermann Georg ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOLVERS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; FLUX MINIMIZATIONS; GNU PUBLIC LICENSE; LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPTIMIZATION PROGRAMS; THERMODYNAMIC FEASIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

METABOLISM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78651553577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-28     Document Type: Article

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