Divide-and-conquer approach to the parallel computation of elementary flux modes in metabolic networks

IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 502-511

  Jevremovic, Dimitrije ^a   Boley, Daniel ^a   Sosa, Carlos P ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Divide and conquer; Metabolic network pathways; Parallel algorithms

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; BIOLOGICAL CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DIVIDE AND CONQUER; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER APPROACH; LOWER MEMORY REQUIREMENT; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; METABOLIC NETWORK; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLELIZATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; METABOLISM; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 83455166285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2011.188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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