Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

An analytic approximation of the feasible space of metabolic networks

  • Alfredo Braunstein,
  • Anna Paola Muntoni,
  • Andrea Pagnani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14915
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Large-scale metabolic models of organisms from microbes to mammals can provide great insight into cellular function, but their analysis remains challenging. Here, the authors provide an approximate analytic method to estimate the feasible solution space for the flux vectors of metabolic networks, enabling more accurate analysis under a wide range of conditions of interest.