Metabolic network discovery by top-down and bottom-up approaches and paths for reconciliation

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Çakir, Tunahan ^a   Khatibipour, Mohammad Jafar ^a  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Active metabolic state; Constraint based models; Flux balance analysis; Metabolic network inference; Metabolome; Network biology; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; BIOLOGY; GENES; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CONSTRAINT-BASED MODELS; FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS; METABOLIC NETWORK; METABOLIC STATE; METABOLOMES; NETWORK BIOLOGY;

METABOLISM;

EID: 85020616962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00062     Document Type: Review

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