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Creation and analysis of biochemical constraint-based models using the COBRA Toolbox v.3.0

  • Laurent Heirendt
  • , Sylvain Arreckx
  • , Thomas Pfau
  • , Sebastian N. Mendoza
  • , Anne Richelle
  • , Almut Heinken
  • , Hulda S. Haraldsdottir
  • , Jacek Wachowiak
  • , Sarah M. Keating
  • , Vanja Vlasov
  • , Stefania Magnusdottir
  • , Chiam Yu Ng
  • , German Preciat
  • , Alise Zagare
  • , Siu Hung Joshua Chan
  • , Maike K. Aurich
  • , Catherine M. Clancy
  • , Jennifer Modamio
  • , John T. Sauls
  • , Alberto Noronha
  • Aarash Bordbar, Benjamin Cousins, Diana C. El Assal, Luis V. Valcarcel, Inigo Apaolaza, Susan Ghaderi, Masoud Ahookhosh, Marouen Ben Guebila, Andrejs Kostromins, Nicolas Sompairac, Hoai M. Le, Ding Ma, Yuekai Sun, Lin Wang, James T. Yurkovich, Miguel A. P. Oliveira, Phan T. Vuong, Lemmer P. El Assal, Inna Kuperstein, Andrei Zinovyev, H. Scott Hinton, William A. Bryant, Francisco J. Aragon Artacho, Francisco J. Planes, Egils Stalidzans, Alejandro Maass, Santosh Vempala, Michael Hucka, Michael A. Saunders, Costas D. Maranas, Nathan E. Lewis, Thomas Sauter, Bernhard O. Palsson, Ines Thiele, Ronan M. T. Fleming*
*Corresponding author for this work
    • University of Luxembourg
    • University of Chile
    • University of California at San Diego
    • European Bioinformatics Institute
    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Sinopia Biosciences
    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • University of Navarra
    • University of Latvia
    • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
    • Stanford University
    • Michigan State University
    • University of Utah
    • Imperial College London
    • University of Alicante
    • California Institute of Technology

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    Abstract

    Constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) provides a molecular mechanistic framework for integrative analysis of experimental molecular systems biology data and quantitative prediction of physicochemically and biochemically feasible phenotypic states. The COBRA Toolbox is a comprehensive desktop software suite of interoperable COBRA methods. It has found widespread application in biology, biomedicine, and biotechnology because its functions can be flexibly combined to implement tailored COBRA protocols for any biochemical network. This protocol is an update to the COBRA Toolbox v.1.0 and v.2.0. Version 3.0 includes new methods for quality-controlled reconstruction, modeling, topological analysis, strain and experimental design, and network visualization, as well as network integration of chemoinformatic, metabolomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and thermochemical data. New multi-lingual code integration also enables an expansion in COBRA application scope via high-precision, high-performance, and nonlinear numerical optimization solvers for multi-scale, multi-cellular, and reaction kinetic modeling, respectively. This protocol provides an overview of all these new features and can be adapted to generate and analyze constraint-based models in a wide variety of scenarios. The COBRA Toolbox v.3.0 provides an unparalleled depth of COBRA methods.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalNature Protocols
    Volume14
    Issue number3
    Pages (from-to)639-702
    Number of pages64
    ISSN1754-2189
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

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