Recovering metabolic pathways via optimization.

Beasley, John E; Planes, Francisco J · Bioinformatics · 2007

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A metabolic pathway is a coherent set of enzyme catalysed biochemical reactions by which a living organism transforms an initial (source) compound into a final (target) compound. Some of the different metabolic pathways adopted within organisms have been experimentally determined. In this paper, we show that a number of experimentally determined metabolic pathways can be recovered by a mathematical optimization model.

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