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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

gMCSpy: efficient and accurate computation of genetic minimal cut sets in Python.

Carlos J Rodriguez-Flores, Naroa Barrena, Danel Olaverri-Mendizabal, Idoia Ochoa, Luis V Valcárcel, Francisco J Planes

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Carlos J Rodriguez-FloresTecnun School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Department, University of Navarra, San Sebastián 20018, Spain.
Naroa BarrenaTecnun School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Department, University of Navarra, San Sebastián 20018, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4324-3371
Danel Olaverri-MendizabalTecnun School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Department, University of Navarra, San Sebastián 20018, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1740-6616
Idoia OchoaTecnun School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Department, University of Navarra, San Sebastián 20018, Spain.
Luis V ValcárcelTecnun School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Department, University of Navarra, San Sebastián 20018, Spain.
Francisco J PlanesTecnun School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Department, University of Navarra, San Sebastián 20018, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1155-3105

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Minister of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain PID2019-110344RB-I00
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motivationThe identification of minimal genetic interventions that modulate metabolic processes constitutes one of the most relevant applications of genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs). The concept of Minimal Cut Sets (MCSs) and its extension at the gene level, genetic Minimal Cut Sets (gMCSs), have attracted increasing interest in the field of Systems Biology to address this task. Different computational tools have been developed to calculate MCSs and gMCSs using both commercial and open-source software.

resultsHere, we present gMCSpy, an efficient Python package to calculate gMCSs in GEMs using both commercial and non-commercial optimization solvers. We show that gMCSpy substantially overperforms our previous computational tool GMCS, which exclusively relied on commercial software. Moreover, we compared gMCSpy with recently published competing algorithms in the literature, finding significant improvements in both accuracy and computation time. All these advances make gMCSpy an attractive tool for researchers in the field of Systems Biology for different applications in health and biotechnology. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The Python package gMCSpy and the data underlying this manuscript can be accessed at: https://github.com/PlanesLab/gMCSpy.

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