From DNA to FBA: How to build your own genome-scale metabolic model

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue JUN, 2016, Pages

  Cuevas, Daniel A ^a   Edirisinghe, Janaka ^b   Henry, Chris S ^b   Overbeek, Ross ^c   O'Connell, Taylor G ^a   Edwards, Robert A ^a,d,e  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes ^*  (United States)

^d San Diego State University   (United States)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux balance analysis; Genome annotation; In silico modeling; Metabolic modeling; Metabolic reconstruction; Model SEED

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; GENOME; MICROORGANISM; PLANT SEED;

EID: 84980049332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00907     Document Type: Article

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