Metabolic tinker: An online tool for guiding the design of synthetic metabolic pathways

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  McClymont, Kent ^a   Soyer, Orkun S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CITRULLINE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLIC TINKER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84878862372     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt234     Document Type: Article

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