[HTML][HTML] Identification of critical connectors in the directed reaction-centric graphs of microbial metabolic networks

EY Kim, D Ashlock, SH Yoon - BMC bioinformatics, 2019 - Springer
Background Detection of central nodes in asymmetrically directed biological networks
depends on centrality metrics quantifying individual nodes' importance in a network. In …

Structural and functional analyses of microbial metabolic networks reveal novel insights into genome-scale metabolic fluxes

G Li, H Cao, Y Xu - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present here an integrated analysis of structures and functions of genome-scale
metabolic networks of 17 microorganisms. Our structural analyses of these networks …

The connectivity structure, giant strong component and centrality of metabolic networks

HW Ma, AP Zeng - Bioinformatics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Structural and functional analysis of genome-based large-scale metabolic
networks is important for understanding the design principles and regulation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Global connectivity in genome-scale metabolic networks revealed by comprehensive FBA-based pathway analysis

Y Gao, Q Yuan, Z Mao, H Liu, H Ma - BMC microbiology, 2021 - Springer
Background Graph-based analysis (GBA) of genome-scale metabolic networks has
revealed system-level structures such as the bow-tie connectivity that describes the overall …

Centrality, network capacity, and modularity as parameters to analyze the core-periphery structure in metabolic networks

MR Da Silva, H Ma, AP Zeng - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Genome-scale metabolic networks of organisms are normally very large and complex.
Previous studies have shown that they are organized in a hierarchical and modular manner …

[HTML][HTML] Graphlet-based characterization of directed networks

A Sarajlić, N Malod-Dognin, ÖN Yaveroğlu, N Pržulj - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We are flooded with large-scale, dynamic, directed, networked data. Analyses requiring
exact comparisons between networks are computationally intractable, so new …

Structural analysis of metabolic networks based on flux centrality

D Koschützki, BH Junker, J Schwender… - Journal of Theoretical …, 2010 - Elsevier
Metabolic reactions are fundamental to living organisms, and a large number of reactions
simultaneously occur at a given time in living cells transforming diverse metabolites into …

Flux-based classification of reactions reveals a functional bow-tie organization of complex metabolic networks

S Singh, A Samal, V Giri, S Krishna, N Raghuram… - Physical Review E, 2013 - APS
Unraveling the structure of complex biological networks and relating it to their functional role
is an important task in systems biology. Here we attempt to characterize the functional …

The strength of chemical linkage as a criterion for pruning metabolic graphs

W Zhou, L Nakhleh - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: A metabolic graph represents the connectivity patterns of a metabolic system,
and provides a powerful framework within which the organization of metabolic reactions can …

[HTML][HTML] A topological characterization of medium-dependent essential metabolic reactions

N Sonnenschein, C Marr, MT Hütt - Metabolites, 2012 - mdpi.com
Metabolism has frequently been analyzed from a network perspective. A major question is
how network properties correlate with biological features like growth rates, flux patterns and …