Science Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Bioinformatics. 2011 Jan 1;27(1):142-3. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq607. Epub 2010 Nov 28.
In flux balance analysis of genome scale stoichiometric models of metabolism, the principal constraints are uptake or secretion rates, the steady state mass conservation assumption and reaction directionality. Here, we introduce an algorithmic pipeline for quantitative assignment of reaction directionality in multi-compartmental genome scale models based on an application of the second law of thermodynamics to each reaction. Given experimental or computationally estimated standard metabolite species Gibbs energy and metabolite concentrations, the algorithms bounds reaction Gibbs energy, which is transformed to in vivo pH, temperature, ionic strength and electrical potential.
This cross-platform MATLAB extension to the COnstraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis (COBRA) toolbox is computationally efficient, extensively documented and open source.
在基因组规模代谢物衡算模型的通量平衡分析中,主要的约束条件是摄取或分泌速率、稳态质量守恒假设和反应方向。在这里,我们基于热力学第二定律在每个反应中的应用,引入了一种用于多隔室基因组规模模型中定量分配反应方向的算法流程。给定实验或计算估计的标准代谢物种类吉布斯自由能和代谢物浓度,算法会限制反应吉布斯自由能,这会转化为体内 pH 值、温度、离子强度和电势能。
这是一个跨平台的 MATLAB 扩展,用于基于约束的重构和分析 (COBRA) 工具箱,计算效率高,文档详尽,并且是开源的。