MetaMerge: scaling up genome-scale metabolic reconstructions, with application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Author(s)
Chindelevitch, Leonid
Stanley, Sarah
Hung, Deborah
Regev, Aviv
Berger, Bonnie
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Reconstructed models of metabolic networks are widely used for studying metabolism in various organisms. Many different reconstructions of the same organism often exist concurrently, forcing researchers to choose one of them at the exclusion of the others. We describe MetaMerge, an algorithm for semi-automatically reconciling a pair of existing metabolic network reconstructions into a single metabolic network model. We use MetaMerge to combine two published metabolic networks for Mycobacterium tuberculosis into a single network, which allows many reactions that could not be active in the individual models to become active, and predicts essential genes with a higher positive predictive value.
Date Issued
2012-01-31
Date Acceptance
2012-01-31
Citation
Genome Biology, 2012, 13 (1), pp.R6-R6
ISSN
1465-6906
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Start Page
R6
End Page
R6
Journal / Book Title
Genome Biology
Volume
13
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2012 Chindelevitch et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Identifier
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r6
Subjects
05 Environmental Sciences
06 Biological Sciences
08 Information and Computing Sciences
Bioinformatics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2012-01-31