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Annotation of Plant Gene Function via Combined Genomics, Metabolomics and Informatics
Published on: June 17, 2012
Differential metabolic and coexpression networks of plant metabolism
Nooshin Omranian1, Sabrina Kleessen2, Takayuki Tohge3
1Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam, Germany; Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Abstract:
Recent analyses have demonstrated that plant metabolic networks do not differ in their structural properties and that genes involved in basic metabolic processes show smaller coexpression than genes involved in specialized metabolism. By contrast, our analysis reveals differences in the structure of plant metabolic networks and patterns of coexpression for genes in (non)specialized metabolism. Here we caution that conclusions concerning the organization of plant metabolism based on network-driven analyses strongly depend on the computational approaches used.
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