Title
GEM System: automatic prototyping of cell-wide metabolic pathway models from genomes.
Abstract
Successful realization of a "systems biology" approach to analyzing cells is a grand challenge for our understanding of life. However, current modeling approaches to cell simulation are labor-intensive, manual affairs, and therefore constitute a major bottleneck in the evolution of computational cell biology.We developed the Genome-based Modeling (GEM) System for the purpose of automatically prototyping simulation models of cell-wide metabolic pathways from genome sequences and other public biological information. Models generated by the GEM System include an entire Escherichia coli metabolism model comprising 968 reactions of 1195 metabolites, achieving 100% coverage when compared with the KEGG database, 92.38% with the EcoCyc database, and 95.06% with iJR904 genome-scale model.The GEM System prototypes qualitative models to reduce the labor-intensive tasks required for systems biology research. Models of over 90 bacterial genomes are available at our web site.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1186/1471-2105-7-168
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
microarrays,genome sequence,escherichia coli,computer simulation,gene expression regulation,information model,cell biology,bioinformatics,simulation model,signal transduction,metabolic pathway,system biology,bacterial genome,algorithms
Genome,Bottleneck,Biology,Metabolic pathway,Systems biology,Cell,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Escherichia coli Proteins
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
0.59
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kazuharu Arakawa112010.46
Yohei Yamada2565.82
Kosaku Shinoda3271.92
Yoichi Nakayama4976.83
Masaru Tomita51009180.20