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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

On the representativeness and stability of a set of EFMs.

Francisco Guil, José F Hidalgo, José M García

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Francisco GuilGrupo de Arquitectura y Computación Paralela, Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6846-1888
José F HidalgoGrupo de Arquitectura y Computación Paralela, Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain.
José M GarcíaGrupo de Arquitectura y Computación Paralela, Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6388-2835

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Abstract

motivationElementary flux modes are a well-known tool for analyzing metabolic networks. The whole set of elementary flux modes (EFMs) cannot be computed in most genome-scale networks due to their large cardinality. Therefore, different methods have been proposed to compute a smaller subset of EFMs that can be used for studying the structure of the network. These latter methods pose the problem of studying the representativeness of the calculated subset. In this article, we present a methodology to tackle this problem.

resultsWe have introduced the concept of stability for a particular network parameter and its relation to the representativeness of the EFM extraction method studied. We have also defined several metrics to study and compare the EFM biases. We have applied these techniques to compare the relative behavior of previously proposed methods in two case studies. Furthermore, we have presented a new method for the EFM computation (PiEFM), which is more stable (less biased) than previous ones, has suitable representativeness measures, and exhibits better variability in the extracted EFMs. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Software and additional material are freely available at https://github.com/biogacop/PiEFM.

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