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Generate biomass objective function stoichiometric coefficients for genome-scale models from experimental data

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BOFdat

Generate biomass objective function for genome-scale models from experimental data. BOFdat is a three step workflow that allows modellers to generate a complete biomass objective function de novo from experimental data:

  1. Obtain stoichiometric coefficients for major macromolecules and calculate maintenance cost
  2. Find coenzymes and inorganic ions
  3. Find metabolic end goals

Significance

Genome-scale metabolic models rely both on a defined media and a precise biomass objective function to generate reliable predictions of flux-states and gene essentiality. Generate a biomass objective that is specific to your organism of interest by incorporating experimental data and calculating stoichiometric coefficients. This package aims to produce an easy way to generate biomass stoichiometric coefficients that reflect experimental reality by incorporating weight fractions and relative abundances of macromolecules obtained from multiple OMICs datasets and finding specie-specific metabolic end goals.

Installation

Use pip to install BOFdat from PyPi:

pip install BOFdat

Example use

A full biomass objective function stoichiometric coefficients determination from experimental data fetched from literature for the E.coli model *i*ML1515 is available in the Example folder. The files used are also provided.

Documentation

The documentation and API for BOFdat is available on Read the Docs

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BOFdat: Generating biomass objective functions for genome-scale metabolic models from experimental data

Author: Jean-Christophe Lachance Date: 06-13-2018 Version: 0.1.4