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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

eQuilibrator 3.0: a database solution for thermodynamic constant estimation.

Moritz E Beber, Mattia G Gollub, Dana Mozaffari, Kevin M Shebek, Avi I Flamholz, Ron Milo, Elad Noor

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers.

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7 authors.

Moritz E BeberNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Mattia G GollubDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zürich, Basel 4058, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9588-3130
Dana MozaffariDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zürich, Basel 4058, Switzerland.
Kevin M ShebekDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, and Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Avi I FlamholzDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Ron MiloDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Herzl 234, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Elad NoorDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Herzl 234, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-8776-4799

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

eQuilibrator (equilibrator.weizmann.ac.il) is a database of biochemical equilibrium constants and Gibbs free energies, originally designed as a web-based interface. While the website now counts around 1,000 distinct monthly users, its design could not accommodate larger compound databases and it lacked a scalable Application Programming Interface (API) for integration into other tools developed by the systems biology community. Here, we report on the recent updates to the database as well as the addition of a new Python-based interface to eQuilibrator that adds many new features such as a 100-fold larger compound database, the ability to add novel compounds, improvements in speed and memory use, and correction for Mg2+ ion concentrations. Moreover, the new interface can compute the covariance matrix of the uncertainty between estimates, for which we show the advantages and describe the application in metabolic modelling. We foresee that these improvements will make thermodynamic modelling more accessible and facilitate the integration of eQuilibrator into other software platforms.

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Databases, FactualDatabases, GeneticSoftwareSystems BiologyHumansInternetIonsMagnesiumMetabolic Networks and PathwaysModels, MolecularThermodynamicsUser-Computer InterfaceIonsMagnesium

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PMID34850162
PMCPMC8728285

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