Creation and analysis of biochemical constraint-based models using the COBRA Toolbox v.3.0

Nature Protocols

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 639-702

  Heirendt, Laurent ^a   Arreckx, Sylvain ^a   Pfau, Thomas ^a   Mendoza, Sebastián N ^b   Richelle, Anne ^c   Heinken, Almut ^a   Haraldsdóttir, Hulda S ^a   Wachowiak, Jacek ^a   Keating, Sarah M ^d   Vlasov, Vanja ^a   Magnusdóttir, Stefania ^a   Ng, Chiam Yu ^e   Preciat, German ^a   Žagare, Alise ^a   Chan, Siu H J ^e   Aurich, Maike K ^a   Clancy, Catherine M ^a   Modamio, Jennifer ^a   Sauls, John T ^f   Noronha, Alberto ^a   Bordbar, Aarash ^g   Cousins, Benjamin ^h   El Assal, Diana C ^a   Valcarcel, Luis V ⁱ   Apaolaza, Iñigo ⁱ   Ghaderi, Susan ^a   Ahookhosh, Masoud ^a   Ben Guebila, Marouen ^a   Kostromins, Andrejs ^j   Sompairac, Nicolas ^k   Le, Hoai M ^a   Ma, Ding ^l   Sun, Yuekai ^m   Wang, Lin ^e   Yurkovich, James T ⁿ   Oliveira, Miguel A P ^a   Vuong, Phan T ^a   El Assal, Lemmer P ^a   Kuperstein, Inna ^k   Zinovyev, Andrei ^k   Hinton, H Scott ^o   Bryant, William A ^p   Aragón Artacho, Francisco J ^q   Planes, Francisco J ⁱ   Stalidzans, Egils ^j   Maass, Alejandro ^b   Vempala, Santosh ^h   Hucka, Michael ^r   Saunders, Michael A ^l   Maranas, Costas D ^e   Lewis, Nathan E ^c,f   Sauter, Thomas ^a   Palsson, Bernhard Ø ^n,s   Thiele, Ines ^a   Fleming, Ronan M T ^a,t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Sinopia Biosciences   (United States)

^h Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^k INSERM U900   (France)

^l Stanford University   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^o Utah State University Research Foundation   (United States)

^p IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^r California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^s Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^t LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; NAJA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENOME; METABOLISM;

GENOME; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 85061915038     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-018-0098-2     Document Type: Article

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