Genome-scale models of microbial cells: Evaluating the consequences of constraints

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 886-897

  Price, Nathan D ^a   Reed, Jennifer L ^a   Palsson, Bernhard Ø ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEADY STATE;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS THEORY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 9544253891     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1023     Document Type: Review

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