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What is flux balance analysis?

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Orth, Jeffrey D, Thiele, Ines, Palsson, Bernhard Ø·2010·Nature Biotechnology

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  • Later methods needing fewer parameters include Boolean network and constraint-based modeling.

    “Subsequently, alternative approaches were developed that require fewer parameters, including Boolean network modeling (Davidson et al., 2002) and constraint-based modeling (Orth et al., 2010; Thiele et al., 2009).”

    From A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype (2012) · cites this paper as Orth et al., 2010

  • Flux Balance Analysis models have been used to predict and understand the behavior of microbes given their environment.

    “For instance, Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) models have been used to predict and understand the behavior of microbes given their environment (Orth et al., 2010;Thiele et al., 2013;Zelezniak et al., 2015).”

    From The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis (2019) · cites this paper as Orth et al., 2010

  • ME models have only been developed for Thermotoga maritima and Escherichia coli because they require detailed knowledge of all steps of protein synthesis that is not readily available for all organisms, particularly eukaryal cells.

    “ME models have only been developed for Thermotoga maritima (Lerman et al, 2012) and E. coli (Orth et al, 2010) because they require detailed knowledge of all the steps of protein synthesis (protein maturation, protein folding, metal binding, etc.), which are not readily available for all organisms, and in particular for eukaryal cells.”
  • GECKO uses the flux balance analysis (FBA) approach.

    “GECKO uses the flux balance analysis (FBA) approach (Orth et al, 2010).”
  • Flux balance analysis allows metabolic fluxes to be compared with transcriptome and proteome measurements and yields genome-scale information on flux control.

    “This approach, called flux balance analysis (Orth et al., 2010), enables comparison of metabolic fluxes with transcriptome and proteomedataandprovidesinformationaboutthe control of fluxes at the genome scale (Bordel et al., 2010).”

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Authors
Orth, J. D., Thiele, I., & Palsson, B. Ø.
Affiliations
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • University of Iceland (IS)
Corresponding author
Palsson, Bernhard Ø
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2010-03
Volume
28
Issue
3
Pages
245-248
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2078355959
Cited by
3,903
References
44
Citations by year
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FWCI
52.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM057089)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
flux balance analysis, metabolic networks, metabolic modeling, stoichiometric modeling, software toolbox
MeSH terms
Escherichia coli, Models, Biological, Oxygen, Phenotype, Biomass, Systems Biology, Metabolic Networks and Pathways

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