Computing autocatalytic sets to unravel inconsistencies in metabolic network reconstructions

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 373-381

  Schmidt, Ralf ^a   Waschina, Silvio ^a,b   Boettger Schmidt, Daniela ^c   Kost, Christian ^b   Kaleta, Christoph ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84929142132     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu658     Document Type: Article

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