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SOURCEFORGE NOW AVAILABLE: - All the code is now available at sourceforge.
- Go to the OptFlux Sourceforge Project.
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OptFlux is now published. Please cite using:
- Isabel Rocha , Paulo Maia , Pedro Evangelista , Paulo Vilaça , Simão Soares , José P Pinto , Jens Nielsen , Kiran R Patil , Eugénio C Ferreira and Miguel Rocha.
OptFlux: an open-source software platform for in silico metabolic engineering. BMC Systems Biology 2010, 4:45
- Miguel Rocha , Paulo Maia , Rui Mendes , José P Pinto , Eugénio C Ferreira , Jens Nielsen , Kiran Raosaheb Patil and Isabel Rocha.
Natural computation meta-heuristics for the in silico optimization of microbial strains. BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:499
- Kiran Raosaheb Patil , Isabel Rocha , Jochen Förster and Jens Nielsen.
Evolutionary programming as a platform for in silico metabolic engineering. BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:308
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Introduction
The OptFlux application includes a number of tools to support in silico metabolic engineering. The application allows the user to load a genome-scale model of a given organism. This will serve as the basis to simulate the wild type and mutants (original strain with a set of selected gene deletions).
The simulation of these strains will be conducted using a number of approaches (e.g. Flux-Balance Analysis, Minimization of Metabolic Adjustment or Regulatory On/Off Minimization of metabolic fluxes) that allow the set of fluxes in the organism's metabolism to be determined, given a set of environmental constraints. The software also includes a number of optimization methods (e.g. Evolutionary Algorithms or Simulated Annealing) to reach the best set of gene deletions given an objective function, typically related with a given industrial goal. It also integrates visualization tools from the BioVisualizer application.
The OptFlux application is being developed taking as a basis the AIBench framework. This is an environment for the development of Data Mining/ Bioinformatics tools, using the Java programming language. The details of this project, a collaboration between the universities of Minho (Portugal) and Vigo (Spain), as well as updated documentation can be found at the web site.
Institutions
University of Minho
University of Minho
IBB-CEB
IBB - Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering Centre of Biological Engineering
CCTC
CCTC - Computer Science and Technology Center
SilicoLife
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CCTC - Computer Science and Technology Center
IBB-CEB - Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering - Centre of Biological Engineering
University of Minho
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