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  • Systems Biology
  • Computational Biology
  • Metabolomics

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  • Metabolic modeling is crucial for understanding human metabolism in health and disease.
  • Accurate modeling requires integrating multiple metabolically active tissues.
  • Existing models may not fully capture dynamic metabolite changes in blood and urine.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a dynamic multi-tissue metabolic model for simulating human metabolism.
  • To integrate transcriptomics data for a genome-scale understanding of metabolic processes.
  • To predict metabolic dynamics and identify biomarkers for metabolic diseases.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a dynamic multi-tissue model of human metabolism.
  • Integrated transcriptomics data to inform the model.
  • Simulated intra-cellular and extra-cellular metabolite dynamics at the genome scale.

Main Results:

  • The model accurately recapitulates human metabolism at molecular and physiological levels.
  • Successfully simulated healthy conditions like fasting, feeding, and exercise.
  • Predicted biomarkers for Inborn Errors of Metabolism with 83% precision.

Conclusions:

  • The dynamic multi-tissue model provides a powerful tool for studying human metabolism.
  • It aids in prioritizing biomarkers for metabolic diseases.
  • Facilitates personalized analysis of omics data for blood and urine metabolites.