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

ND Price, JL Reed, BØ Palsson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004 - nature.com
Microbial cells operate under governing constraints that limit their range of possible
functions. With the availability of annotated genome sequences, it has become possible to …

Quantitative prediction of cellular metabolism with constraint-based models: the COBRA Toolbox

SA Becker, AM Feist, ML Mo, G Hannum, BØ Palsson… - Nature protocols, 2007 - nature.com
The manner in which microorganisms utilize their metabolic processes can be predicted
using constraint-based analysis of genome-scale metabolic networks. Herein, we present …

Using genome-scale models to predict biological capabilities

EJ O'Brien, JM Monk, BO Palsson - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) methods at the genome scale have
been under development since the first whole-genome sequences appeared in the mid …

Reconstruction of biochemical networks in microorganisms

AM Feist, MJ Herrgård, I Thiele, JL Reed… - Nature Reviews …, 2009 - nature.com
Abstract Systems analysis of metabolic and growth functions in microbial organisms is
rapidly developing and maturing. Such studies are enabled by reconstruction, at the …

Software platforms to facilitate reconstructing genome‐scale metabolic networks

JJ Hamilton, JL Reed - Environmental microbiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
System‐level analyses of microbial metabolism are facilitated by genome‐scale
reconstructions of microbial biochemical networks. A reconstruction provides a structured …

Constraining the metabolic genotype–phenotype relationship using a phylogeny of in silico methods

NE Lewis, H Nagarajan, BO Palsson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
Reconstructed microbial metabolic networks facilitate a mechanistic description of the
genotype–phenotype relationship through the deployment of constraint-based …

Reconstruction and Use of Microbial Metabolic Networks: the Core Escherichia coli Metabolic Model as an Educational Guide

JD Orth, RMT Fleming, BØ Palsson - EcoSal plus, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biochemical network reconstructions have become popular tools in systems biology.
Metabolicnetwork reconstructions are biochemically, genetically, and genomically (BiGG) …

COBRApy: constraints-based reconstruction and analysis for python

A Ebrahim, JA Lerman, BO Palsson, DR Hyduke - BMC systems biology, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) methods are
widely used for genome-scale modeling of metabolic networks in both prokaryotes and …

Critical assessment of genome-scale metabolic networks: the need for a unified standard

A Ravikrishnan, K Raman - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Genome-scale metabolic networks have been reconstructed for several organisms. These
metabolic networks provide detailed information about the metabolism inside the cells …

Use of randomized sampling for analysis of metabolic networks

J Schellenberger, BØ Palsson - Journal of biological chemistry, 2009 - ASBMB
Genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions in microorganisms have been formulated
and studied for about 8 years. The constraint-based approach has shown great promise in …