Boosting the extraction of elementary flux modes in genome-scale metabolic networks using the linear programming

Francisco Guil1, José F Hidalgo1, José M García1

  • 1Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia 30080, Spain.

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