CycleFreeFlux: Efficient removal of thermodynamically infeasible loops from flux distributions

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 2159-2165

  Desouki, Abdelmoneim Amer ^a,b   Jarre, Florian ^a   Gelius Dietrich, Gabriel ^a   Lercher, Martin J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84936791945     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv096     Document Type: Article

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