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ArticleNature protocols2011

Quantitative prediction of cellular metabolism with constraint-based models: the COBRA Toolbox v2.0.

Jan Schellenberger, Richard Que, Ronan M T Fleming, Ines Thiele, Jeffrey D Orth, Adam M Feist, Daniel C Zielinski, Aarash Bordbar, Nathan E Lewis, Sorena Rahmanian and 3 more

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Article in Nature protocols, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 620 papers.

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620 citing papers in PubMed.

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13 authors.

Jan SchellenbergerBioinformatics Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
Richard Que
Ronan M T Fleming
Ines Thiele
Jeffrey D Orth
Adam M Feist
Daniel C Zielinski
Aarash Bordbar
Nathan E Lewis
Sorena Rahmanian
Joseph Kang
Daniel R Hyduke
Bernhard Ø Palsson

Funding

GENOMICALLY BASED MODELS FOR ANTIBIOTIC DEVELOPMENTR01GM057089 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PALSSON, BERNHARD O · 1998 to 2021
$6.9M
Network-based Analysis of Kinetics and RegulationR01GM068837 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PALSSON, BERNHARD O · 2003 to 2012
$2.4M
SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF MYCOBACTERIAR01AI008401 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI GOREN, MAYER B. · 1989 to 1989
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SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF MYCOBACTERIAR22AI008401 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI GOREN, MAYER B. · 1985 to 1989
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NIAID NIH HHS Y01 AI008401NIAID NIH HHS Y1-AI-8401-01NIGMS NIH HHS GM057089-11S1NIGMS NIH HHS GM68837-05A1NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM057089NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068837
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past decade, a growing community of researchers has emerged around the use of constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) methods to simulate, analyze and predict a variety of metabolic phenotypes using genome-scale models. The COBRA Toolbox, a MATLAB package for implementing COBRA methods, was presented earlier. Here we present a substantial update of this in silico toolbox. Version 2.0 of the COBRA Toolbox expands the scope of computations by including in silico analysis methods developed since its original release. New functions include (i) network gap filling, (ii) (13)C analysis, (iii) metabolic engineering, (iv) omics-guided analysis and (v) visualization. As with the first version, the COBRA Toolbox reads and writes systems biology markup language-formatted models. In version 2.0, we improved performance, usability and the level of documentation. A suite of test scripts can now be used to learn the core functionality of the toolbox and validate results. This toolbox lowers the barrier of entry to use powerful COBRA methods.

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Metabolic Networks and PathwaysSoftwareAlgorithmsComputational Biology

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PMID21886097
PMCPMC3319681

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