optGpSampler: An improved tool for uniformly sampling the solution-space of genome-scale metabolic networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Megchelenbrink, Wout ^a,b   Huynen, Martijn ^b   Marchiori, Elena ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERNET; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SAMPLING ALGORITHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE;

ALGORITHMS; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84895896805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086587     Document Type: Article

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