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Dynamic elementary mode modelling of non-steady state flux data
Abel Folch-Fortuny1,2, Bas Teusink3, Huub C J Hoefsloot4
1Grupo de Ingeniería Estadística Multivariante, Departamento de Estadística e IO Aplicadas y Calidad, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain. abfolfor@upv.es.
Background:
A novel framework is proposed to analyse metabolic fluxes in non-steady state conditions, based on the new concept of dynamic elementary mode (dynEM): an elementary mode activated partially depending on the time point of the experiment.
Results:
Two methods are introduced here: dynamic elementary mode analysis (dynEMA) and dynamic elementary mode regression discriminant analysis (dynEMR-DA). The former is an extension of the recently proposed principal elementary mode analysis (PEMA) method from steady state to non-steady state scenarios. The latter is a discriminant model that permits to identify which dynEMs behave strongly different depending on the experimental conditions. Two case studies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with fluxes derived from simulated and real concentration data sets, are presented to highlight the benefits of this dynamic modelling.
Conclusions:
This methodology permits to analyse metabolic fluxes at early stages with the aim of i) creating reduced dynamic models of flux data, ii) combining many experiments in a single biologically meaningful model, and iii) identifying the metabolic pathways that drive the organism from one state to another when changing the environmental conditions.
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