Networks coming from protein-protein interactions, transcriptional regulation, signaling, or metabolism may appear to have "unusual" properties. To quantify this, it is appropriate to randomize the network and test the hypothesis that the network is not statistically different from expected in a motivated ensemble. However, when dealing with metabolic networks, the randomization of the network using edge exchange generates fictitious reactions that are biochemically meaningless. Here we provide several natural ensembles of randomized metabolic networks. A first constraint is to use valid biochemical reactions. Further constraints correspond to imposing appropriate functional constraints. We explain how to perform these randomizations with the help of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and show that they allow one to approach the properties of biological metabolic networks. The implication of the present work is that the observed global structural properties of real metabolic networks are likely to be the consequence of simple biochemical and functional constraints.
Phylogenetic tree reconstruction from genome-scale metabolic models
Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir(瓦伦西亚天主教大学圣维森特马蒂尔);Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia(瓦伦西亚理工大学纯数学与应用数学研究所)
Sampling from the Solution Space and Metabolic Environments of Genome-Scale Metabolic Models
KU Leuven(荷语鲁汶大学);Université Paris-Saclay, Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)(巴黎萨克雷大学,法国国家农业食品与环境研究院)
Automation on the generation of genome scale metabolic models
Universidad Pinar del Río “Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca”(比纳尔德里奥大学“塞斯·蒙特斯·德奥卡兄弟”);Cátedra Energesis de Tecnología Interdisciplinar, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir(瓦伦西亚天主教圣文森特马蒂尔跨技术学院Energesis);Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia(瓦伦西亚理工大学纯数学与应用数学大学研究所)
A generalizable framework for unlocking missing reactions in genome-scale metabolic networks using deep learning
University of South Carolina(南卡罗来纳大学);Central South University(中南大学);Peking University(北京大学);Yangtze Delta Region Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学长三角研究院);National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology(国家合成生物技术创新中心);Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院)
Uncertainty-aware integration of deuterium metabolic imaging with genome-scale metabolic modeling reveals diet-associated feasible-space remodeling in mouse skeletal muscle
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf(杜塞尔多夫海因里希·海涅大学);German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research, Germany(德国糖尿病中心,莱布尼茨糖尿病研究所);Institute for Molecular Cardiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany(杜塞尔多夫大学医学院及附属医院分子心脏病学研究所);Cardiovascular Research Institute Düsseldorf (CARID), Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany(杜塞尔多夫心血管研究所);German Center for Diabetes Research, Partner Düsseldorf, München-Neuherberg, Germany(德国糖尿病研究中心)
This document compares SRI's Pathway Tools (PTools) software with the Reactome software. Both software systems serve the pathway bioinformatics area, including representation and analysis of metabolic pathways and signaling pathways. The comparison covers pathway bioinformatics capabilities, but does not cover other major facets of Pathway Tools that are completely absent from the Reactome software: Pathway Tools genome-informatics capabilities, regulatory informatics capabilities, and table-based analysis tools (SmartTables). Our overall findings are as follows. (1) PTools is significantly ah…
Metabolism plays a central role in cell physiology because it provides the molecular machinery for growth. At the genome-scale, metabolism is made up of thousands of reactions interacting with one another. Untangling this complexity is key to understand how cells respond to genetic, environmental, or therapeutic perturbations. Here we discuss the roles of two complementary strategies for the analysis of genome-scale metabolic models: Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) and network science. While FBA estimates metabolic flux on the basis of an optimisation principle, network approaches reveal emergent …
Abnormal metabolism is an emerging hallmark of cancer. Cancer cells utilize both aerobic glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) for energy production and biomass synthesis. Understanding the metabolic reprogramming in cancer can help design therapies to target metabolism and thereby to improve prognosis. We have previously argued that more malignant tumors are usually characterized by a more modular expression pattern of cancer-associated genes. In this work, we analyzed the expression patterns of metabolism genes in terms of modularity for 371 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) samples…
Genome-scale metabolic models have become a fundamental tool for examining metabolic principles. However, metabolism is not solely characterized by the underlying biochemical reactions and catalyzing enzymes, but also affected by regulatory events. Since the pioneering work of Covert and co-workers as well as Shlomi and co-workers it is debated, how regulation and metabolism synergistically characterize a coherent cellular state. The first approaches started from metabolic models which were extended by the regulation of the encoding genes of the catalyzing enzymes. By now, bioinformatics datab…
The MetaboX library: building metabolic networks from KEGG database
在代谢组学的许多关键应用中,如毒理学或营养基因组学,人们感兴趣的是分析和检测代谢过程中的变化,通常以途径的形式表示。作为一种替代办法,更广泛的视角将使调查人员能够更好地了解不同进程中实体之间的关系。因此,将一个可能的扰动与几个已知过程联系起来是这一研究领域的一种新方法。我们建议使用的反应物,酶和代谢物的代谢网络表示。为了模拟这些系统,可以描述酶和代谢物之间的反应和关系。通过这种方式,分析某些代谢物或酶的变化对不同过程的影响更容易理解,检测和预测。结果:我们发布了MetaboX库,这是一个开源PHP框架,用于从一组化合物开发代谢网络。该库使用存储在Kyoto Encyclopedia for Genes and Genomes(KEGG)数据库中的数据,并使用其REST风格的应用程序编程接口(API)和方法来增强对KEGG Web服务返回的信息的操作。MetaboX库包括提取有关感兴趣资源(例如代谢物,反应和酶)的信息以及构建反应物网络,二分酶-代谢物和单分酶网络的方法。这些网络可以以不同的格式导出,以便使用标准工具进行数据可视化。作为一个案例研究,从糖酵解途径的一个子集建立的网络进行了描述和讨论。结论:使用这样的库的优点意味着能够用由代谢物KEGG ID的集合表示的很少的起始信息对复杂系统进行建模。
Directionality is an inherent property of biochemical networks
对反应方向的热力学约束是给定生化网络结构中固有的。然而,用于确定大规模代谢网络的可行反应方向的具体程序还没有很好地建立。这项工作介绍了一个系统的方法来计算反应方向,这是由质量平衡和热力学的约束,基因组规模的网络。此外,它表明,非凸的物理化学约束的解决方案空间可以近似由一组线性化的子空间,在其中的质量和热力学平衡得到保证。该方法可用于{ \it ab initio}预测基因组规模网络的反应方向。
Fast reconstruction of compact context-specific metabolic networks via integration of microarray data
最近,我们提出了一种用于快速重建紧凑上下文特定代谢网络(FASTCORE)的算法,该算法允许将重建时间降低到秒的时间量级(Vlavis et al.,2014年)。这种极低的计算需求为提高模型的质量开辟了新的可能性。重建高质量的模型需要几轮模型重建、根据真实实验数据测试模型的预测、输入模型和核心反应集的管理步骤以及交叉验证分析。这些半自动化的模型策展步骤在这种程度上是不可能的竞争算法,由于他们的高计算需求。为了适应FASTCORE的集成微阵列数据,因此,我们提出了一个新的工作流程:FASTCORMICS。FASTCORMICS需要输入微阵列数据和基因组规模的重建。FASTCORMICS没有启发式参数设置,并且具有低计算需求,总体构建时间大约为几分钟。FASTCORMICS用离散化工具Barcode预处理微阵列数据(Zillox等,2007)。条形码使用关于给定微阵列平台的每个探针组的强度分布的先验知识,以在表达的基因和非表达的基因之间分离。该预处理步骤允许规避设置启发式表达阈值的需要,这对于输出模型是关键的,因为响应于该阈值,可能包括或排除替代路径或子系统,从而严重改变模型的功能。一般来说,FASTCORMICS优于竞争算法,并允许以高吞吐量的方式获得高质量,鲁棒的模型。这将允许使用代谢建模作为用于分析微阵列数据的常规过程,例如在个性化医学领域。
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) became a worldwide pandemic with currently no effective antiviral drug except treatments for symptomatic therapy. Flux balance analysis is an efficient method to analyze metabolic networks. It allows optimizing for a metabolic function and thus e.g., predicting the growth rate of a specific cell or the production rate of a metabolite of interest. Here flux balance analysis was applied on human lung cells infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to reposition metabolic drugs and drug combinations against the replication o…